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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:18 AM Jul 2013

Governor Tom Corbett (R): Pregnant Women, Breast Cancer Patients Are Free Health Care Moochers

Pennsylvania Republicans have decided against expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, arguing that covering more low-income residents would cost the state too much money. But last week, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) went a step further, telling a local news station that poor residents who are already enrolled in the program, including pregnant women and breast cancer patients, are receiving too much free care and should pay into the system.

“What I hear all the time coming out of the administration in Washington is that it’s the working poor [who benefit from Medicaid],” Corbett told WTAE, a local ABC affiliate, on Saturday. “Yes it is working, but you should be investing five, ten dollars in co-pay to understand that you go to to the hospital or the doctors, you just can’t keep going and going and going and think everything is going to be covered. You have to know that you have some interest in what’s going on.”


Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/09/2270331/governor-thinks-pregnant-women-breast-cancer-patients-should-pay-more-for-health-care/
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Governor Tom Corbett (R): Pregnant Women, Breast Cancer Patients Are Free Health Care Moochers (Original Post) kpete Jul 2013 OP
This bastard governor is also against clean Ilsa Jul 2013 #1
WTF are women supposed to do? LiberalEsto Jul 2013 #2
Handmaid's Tale? n/t woodsprite Jul 2013 #3
He's a certified prick - he's got a certificate in a frame in his office. JM42 Jul 2013 #4

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. This bastard governor is also against clean
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:23 AM
Jul 2013

Water for residents of Dimock, PA. He took apart the $12 million deal to get clean water from the public system out in the country where water well residents' wells were poisoned by Cabot Oil and others through fracking. Cabot was supposed to pay for the new water lines.

But before we make those pesky pregnant women pay for more of their healthcare, we need to close more abortion clinics, right? Even if they offer contraception.

I hate Republicans like Corbett.

 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
2. WTF are women supposed to do?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:30 AM
Jul 2013

-The right-wing loonies are busily working to eliminate abortion and birth control.

- Some of them are saying rape can't cause pregnancy, which is lunacy.

- Others say rape-created pregnancies are gifts from their god.

- But if women get pregnant and need help, they are now considered MOOCHERS.

Are we somehow supposed to believe that only wealthy women are allowed to have babies? And that poor women and their babies are out of luck?

Corbett and his fellow lunatics can't be allowed to have their way.

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