What a failed, useless party the GOP is.

[kpete]

FUN FACT- The GOP’s proposed changes to Medicaid are the same ones as in the ACA:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/even-if-he-agreed-with-me-he-couldnt-say-so/2011/03/10/ABTL9iV_blog.html

This is all cheap politics and rants from the neo-Confederates on the right who have no solution of their own.

Medicaid has signed up 444,000 people in 10 states in the six weeks since open enrollment began:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57611885/medicaid-signups-an-early-obamacare-bright-spot/

The ACA and Medicaid work hand in hand. The refusal of GOP governors to expand Medicaid is keeping 5 million people from getting health care.

What a failed, useless party the GOP is.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/11/18/the-morning-plum-obamacare-is-the-salvation-of-the-gop-not/?commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/1384793978-95-638

[hfojvt]

1. keeping 5 million people from getting health care

To me, that is the money line.

The other part is the impact on the State economy. To expand medicaid means that federal tax dollars would be flowing in to the state economy, giving it a boost.

So Republican Governors seem to be saying "not only do we not want moderately poor people to get health care, we don't want people to get jobs either"

Somebody should run some numbers on how many jobs an extra million of medicaid spending would create and then give a state by state breakdown.

Makes me wonder though if the CBPP hasn't already done that.

[hfojvt]

2. not finding it so far

although they have this
http://www.cbpp.org/pdf/Webinar_EconomicImpactsMerged.pdf

and this

http://www.cbpp.org/files/CBPP-memo-on-medicaid-expansion-costs.pdf

[Laelth]

3. Failed ... useless ... it's hard to argue with that. n/t

-Laelth

[Fumesucker]

4. Oh, I don't know about that

The fact that Republicans exist allows the Democrats to continually move to the right, particularly on economic issues.

As the old saying goes, everyone has a purpose even if it's just as a bad example.

[Initech]

5. They follow the South Park Underpants Gnomes theory.

Step 1: accumulate massive amounts of power

Step 2: Paint competition as weak and spineless

Step 3: ?????

Step 4: Profit!

[Laelth]

6. Very well said. n/t

-Laelth