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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Koch Brothers Are Spending Millions to Deny Poor Americans Healthcare
http://www.politicususa.com/koch-brothers-spending-millions-deny-poor-americans-healthcare.htmlA prescient question is; what benefit do the Koch brothers get from preventing Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Florida (among others) from participating in the Medicaid expansion program? Poor people cannot afford private healthcare insurance, so the insurance industry is not losing potential policy holders, and people with private coverage will not qualify for Medicaid coverage so they will not abandon their private policies for no coverage. With no apparent profit motive, it is possible the Kochs are nervous that another government program like Social Security and Medicare will be popular with the people making their government is a failure propaganda hard to sell to voters, but it is most likely the Koch brothers are just sheer evil; and greedy. The Koch philosophy is that if government spends any money at all, it should be to enrich the wealthy whether it is in the form of tax breaks for the one-percent, or direct payments to Koch Industries.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Cleita
(75,480 posts)They seem to have yacht club, playboy, all over them, without the good looks, just the money. I kind of wonder why they care, unless they got sucked into some cultish thing? Now, the question I'm asking is who is pulling the Koch Brother's strings?
RagAss
(13,832 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)And how have these fucking assholes not been arrested for treason yet??
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)I remember shortly after "Obamacare" was passed Rachel Maddow, was talking one night about Koch industries taking advantage of some of the employers benefits... wish I could be more definite with the dates, but I do remember Rachel talking about it...
in a convoluted way it makes sense when you try to think like one of them... to them its just another subsidy, and after all that's what they do..
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)HuskyOffset
(890 posts)...healthcare related businesses, because if they did, wouldn't they be in favor of expanding Medicaid, since it would result in a transfer of $$$$ from taxpayers to them, or do I misunderstand how that would work?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)to cause unnecessary hardship and suffering among those in need?
What the hell is wrong with people whom use their power and influence to discriminate against other people and encourage other people to hate?
What the hell is wrong with people whom use their power and influence to tell other people whom are bothering nobody how to live their lives?
What is wrong with the Koch Brothers and their allies anyway and what makes them hate people less fortunate then they are? It's one thing to simply ignore people in need (it happens all of the time) but what makes people GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to hurt others? Somebody leave a lump of coal in their stockings when they were kids? Seriously.