Chris Hayes: Sleeper issue of 2014? GOP refusal of Medicaid expansion.

[ErikJ]

Chris Hayes said that it could be the sleeper issue of 2014. Most people cant believe that someone or thing (GOP) could be so cruel to refuse free federal money to give the poor and sick in your own state health care when it wouldnt cost the state a thing. I think he may be right. I ran that by a Republican earlier tonight and he called me a liar.

[malaise]

1. I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of a political party

campaigning against Medicaid as a winning election issue.

[CTyankee]

13. You and I can't understand it but the repukes have figured out that there are voters out there

who are so resentful and just downright racist, that they think all Medicaid recipients are "undeserving" and "moochers." Sometimes they still feel that way when a close family member is forced by circumstances to go on Medicaid. I would hope that that would change as more and more people face real hardship and poverty in this country...a hard lesson in humility for heretofore smug, self satisfied folks...I feel sorry for their kids...

[malaise]

14. They are usually the biggest moochers

themselves

[CTyankee]

15. *sigh" Yes.

It is such a pity...

[Warren DeMontague]

2. That's only if our people bother to explain it and argue the moral case.

Unfortunately, it's the sort of thing that too many Democrats, particularly in the red states we're talking about, run away from, instead of use the bully pulpit to argue about.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. Exactly so.

I know that in my state, people on Medicaid generally don't vote, and the ones that do aren't going to hear the so-called Democrats down here mention it. The GOP is in control here, and the voters pretty much all think they're middle class. The 'middle class' down here think that Medicaid is mostly a program for black women who have too many babies, so they don't like the program. When people only hear the most radical Republican version of things, that's what they believe.

[Scuba]

3. It should work here in Wisconsin, although the Dem leadership has already picked a corporatist.

[dembotoz]

10. i am very happy to mention the bastard walkers effect on obamacare shortcomings

[Hoyt]

4. Right wingers are fine with denying Medicaid to the poor.

It will attract/hold hateful voters.

[jtuck004]

7. "... hateful voters" <- Who aren't near as numerous as those who want to accomplish

something, IF you give them something real to work towards, and then don't turn your back on them.

[Hoyt]

8. I applaud your optimism, just don't see it right now. Hope you are right.

[jtuck004]

9. Always been that way. WWII, The Space Race - problem is finding a competent leader to

motivate everyone with a big enough story that actually moves us forward and upward as a nation.

"We need for you to work really hard to make your employer more money so you can support banks and get screwed over on your mortgage so you can vote for us again so we can cut your Social Security and offshore your jobs with an underhanded, back-room trade agreement that limits your Internet freedom too" isn't, well, it just isn't as inspiring somehow...

[uponit7771]

5. Saw that, in deep red and blue areas alike medicaid expansion wins hands down

[Laelth]

6. This should be more than a sleeper issue.

Let us hope our candidates make this issue central to their campaigns.

-Laelth

[Enrique]

12. a Republican just won a GOP primary in Louisiana on that issue

he was in favor of expanding Medicaid. The entire GOP establishment, in the state and nationwide, was against him. And he won. In the GOP primary. In Louisiana.

So yes, i agree it's a winning issue. I haven't seen signs of the dems taking it up, but maybe they're saving it.

[napkinz]

16. GOP Campaign 2014 ...

[napkinz]

17. "The Real Victims"

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024059104

[ProSense]

18. Republican outsider Vance McAllister wins House seat in Louisiana

Republican outsider Vance McAllister wins House seat in Louisiana
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024046538

Obamacare is having one huge success nobody knows about
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024038246

[moondust]

19. Hospitals in those states

will apparently have to keep picking up the tab for a lot of the costs when the poor and uninsured go to the ER for treatment, just like old times, according to Senator Whitehouse yesterday. He hinted that hospital administrators may start to lean on their politicians to get with the program.

[napkinz]

20. kick

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