Thom Hartmann: Is Rick Scott Guilty of Murder?

[ErikJ]

Last edited Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:27 AM - Edit history (1)

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Last year, Charlene made just $11,000 cleaning houses and babysitting. She used that money to help put food on the table for her children, and to put a roof over their heads.
Then Charlene discovered she had a severe heart problems that needed to be managed.
And she couldn't afford to get it treated right, because Charlene didn't have health insurance.

Charlene fell into what's called the "Red State Doughnut Hole," created by Republican lawmakers like Rick Scott.
It says that if you make over $5,400 and less than $11,400, you get no health insurance.
Below the $5,400, Charlene would have qualified for Florida's pretty pathetic Medicaid program.
Over $11,400, she would have qualified for free health insurance under Obamacare because of the subsidies for low-income people.
But because she only earned $11,000, she made too little to qualify for Obamacare, but too much to qualify for Florida Medicaid.


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A recent study by researchers at Harvard University and the City University of New York found that as many as 17,000 Americans will die directly as a result of Republican states refusing to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
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Republicans say that they're pro-life, but that's a bald-faced lie, because they refuse to let low-wage working Americans have access to life-saving Medicaid.
If Rick Scott and his Republican buddies in the Florida legislature are really the Christians they claim they are, then they're going to burn in hell. Deservedly.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/22696-is-rick-scott-guilty-of-murder#.UzHk7aor-_k.gmail

[yurbud]

1. Good point. I wonder if anyone will ask rick Scott about it to his face