Medicaid cuts could carry a political cost, too

[pstokely]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10929121.htm

Medicaid cuts could carry a political cost, too

By KEVIN MURPHY

The Kansas City Star


GERSTER, Mo. — Gary Ruckel, like most rural Missourians, backed Matt Blunt for governor last fall and voted other Republicans into legislative seats.

Ruckel agreed with Blunt on issues such as gun control and gay marriage, but he was not considering a subject that hit much closer to home: medical care.

[NC_Nurse]

1. New slogan:

"GO f*** yourself: Vote Republican".

That IS what they're doing, isn't it?

[Nay]

2. More repub lovers get it in the teeth.

A four-paragraph snip from the news article:

So when Blunt proposed cuts in Medicaid last month that could cost Ruckel and his wife, Vivian Ruckel, some services, the couple had second thoughts about backing Republicans.

“It kind of jumps back and kicks you in the teeth, is what it does, because I wasn't planning on this,” said Ruckel, who lives about 50 miles north of Springfield. “If they cut back on Medicaid, it's going to crucify us, because we don't make that much.”

Ruckel's story is familiar in rural Missouri. More than half of Medicaid recipients in Missouri live outside the Kansas City and the St. Louis areas.

Those rural areas voted heavily for Blunt, who carried 100 of 107 counties outside the state's two largest metropolitan areas.

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All I can say is -- people are getting what they voted for. Will they live long enough to wise up? Some won't, and they won't because they voted for these repug bastards who truly don't care if they get their medicines or not. As many of us have said for years on these boards, it has to hit each home in the worst way before the majority wake the hell up. It's too bad that's what it takes.

And a message to some people here is that a lot of these people are impervious to reason -- they run on emotion and rumor and are incapable or unwilling to think things through. This is not correctable by the rest of us educating, organizing, or preaching to these kind of people. Only direct pain corrects these peoples' ideas.