Posted on 11/13/2014 12:28:02 PM PST by MNDude
Gruber saves some special scorn for the Republican governors who have bravely said no to...Free Money!
"What I don't get is these STUPID governors who are turning down the Medicaid expansion," he said. "This is preposterously STUPID. First of all, your low-income people get health-insurance, and you get billions and billions of dollars of stimulus in health-care spending. For example, there are one million uninsured Floridians who are below the poverty line. The federal government is saying we'll pay to insure them, and, in addition, we're sending billions of dollars to you. And Rick Scott says no. There is no basis for turning this down except to put your political agenda ahead of the needs of your state's citizens. They say they're worried about the federal deficit? Why? They're governors, for god's sake. This is one of the criminal failures of our political system. It is an enormous failure."
“What I don’t get is these STUPID governors who are turning down...”
money
we know you don’t get it - let me educate you fool
not everyone worships at the altar of government money
“This is one of the criminal failures of our political system.”
It couldn’t possibly be more clear that this guy admires the political system of the old Soviet Union far more than he cares for ours
It’s like Clinton’s 100,000 cops on the street. Feds paid the cost at a sliding scale. When the Fed money stopped, all the cops got laid off.
The same is going to happen with this Medicaid expansion. Most of the states that opted for it are not very fiscally solvent in the first place. When they have to foot the entire bill for this, it’s going to blow a huge hole in their budgets and they’ll have to scale down.
They were also worried about their stat deficits. After some initial payments, the states were stuck with the bill for this foolishness.
This guy is going down.
The surest cure for ‘expert’ worship is actual knowledge of experts.
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