Republican Governors won't expand Medicaid to cover uninsured poor people.

[shcrane71]

Why isn't this headline news? This is absolutely free to their states for the next three years, and then the federal gov't picks up most (90 percent) of the cost.

These governors are pure evil.

[Tx4obama]

1. It has been headline news. They've been talking about it for two days on MSNBC, and see below

Here's a great chart of the GOPers that have said no: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101738323

[shcrane71]

9. I've been listening to NPR, and I haven't heard anything about it. Thanks for the link!

This is so unconscionably mean. It's the lowest I've ever seen the GOPers stoop.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Actually there are stories about this all over the media.

Several stories have their own DU thread.

Note that the Governors don't have to make a final decision until next summer.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Lotsa stories, and many of them say...

that most of these scumbag guvners are just playing to their crowds and will quietly back down when the time comes.

(It's what scumbag politicians do. )

[kestrel91316]

4. They want the poor to leave their states by any means necessary:

death is preferable, but moving to another state will also suffice, at least for the time being.

[Tsiyu]

5. Short-sighted fools

Talented and hard-working folks will leave those states in droves. Faster if they have disabled or sick family. They won't have to be driven out.

Their new home states will have healthier, more productive, higher tax-paying individuals overall as a result of having affordable health insurance for familes and singles.

Then the idiots can stay behind and live in their Third World states. Everybody's happy!

But...this is really only governors pandering to the rabid teabag base before the election. They'll change their tune when they see that money can be flowing into their state from the Feds. Republican governors LOVE that more than they hate poor people.

[shcrane71]

10. I should hope that they move. I'm seeing anti-poor people posts on FB.

Some of the people who've posted these things really surprised me, like one friend who is a social worker. I hope good people can get the hell out and away from these utterly mean, selfish, and cruel people.

[xmas74]

14. I see those posts all the time on FB

usually from people who should know better.

The posts are always whining about Medicaid or about food stamps.

[Zalatix]

11. Yes, death is preferable in the minds of these animals.

It's nice to see that some folks are seeing these Conservatives for what they REALLY are: social Darwinists.

[AJTheMan]

6. Guess what! I live in one of those states!

And yes, Governor Bobby Jindal is kind of a dick.

[Wounded Bear]

15. "Kind of?"

He probably thinks we forgot about his idea to reduce funding for volcano research. (I live in the shadow of Mt St Helens's big brother.

Nope. Still remembering.

[moondust]

7. My prediction:

Those Republican guvnahs will bitch and moan and whine and demogogue about the evil ACA and expanded Medicaid and how they wouldn't touch it with a 50-foot pole...until the November election. When that's over they'll be drooling to get their hands on that money and complaining about something else.

[Life Long Dem]

8. That's what MSM is running on

And why we are not hearing as much about this as we should be.

[Stephan noel]

12. Spam deleted by ornotna (MIR Team)

[Chan790]

13. I don't want to say "good"...

because the humanitarian costs are sad.

But when those that would have been covered see their family members and peers across the state line getting health care that they're not because Obama Cares and GOP Governor does not...guess what's becoming a campaign issue. Guess who's not getting reelected. Guess what has down-ticket consequences. This is a gift of a blunt-object wield-able for a decade or more to destroy conservatism among those who need the biggest hand-up, ironically the staunchest conservatives. This isn't one of those things the GOP is going to be able to push off on benefiting liberal elites and minorities...these people are going to be able to see with their own eyes that they're getting involuntarily-forcibly-sodomized by the party they believed in. Democrats can run in very-conservative places on "I'm going to give you healthcare you're already paying for and not receiving."

If I'm the RNC, I'm calling the Jindals and Walkers and saying "You can say what you'd like...but the fuck you're not doing it. We're not handing them the means to destroy us."

[shcrane71]

16. Except that these are the working poor. Often working two or three jobs in order to get by.

It's difficult to get information about expanded Medicaid from other states to this population. Especially when all the surrounding states have also rejected the Medicaid expansion. It's not as if the Left has access to the airwaves (think AM radio) like the Right does.

[Chan790]

17. I was thinking friends, family, border-creep and especially no TV/radio.

It's not immediate. If it were immediate...it wouldn't be a blunt-force of that length of time. The very things you're pointing to were things I knew and which if not for humanitarian costs work to our advantage.

I don't expect to have expanded Medicare everywhere until 2020 at the earliest...I expect that with the slow tidal change conservatism is squashed. Nobody talks about it but the GOP is on the verge of "structural loss" in Presidential races anyways...it's possible that if they lose 2012, they may not be viable in a Presidential race for another generation unless they toss-over much of their current agenda; the demographics are against them and trending further away.

The last thing I want is an ad campaign on radio or TV...they'll become inured to the reality; they need to see it and figure it out on their own without hearing it from Democratic leadership first. People, even conservatives, trust their lefty cousin and their moderate neighbor more than any politician. People in VA and WV know people in DC and MD. Kentuckians know Ohioans. Wisconsin borders Minnesota. We're capable of taking Florida and with that you border creep...you can't make this message in Alabama or Louisiana tomorrow.