MS Gov to Constituents: my personal ideology is more important than you & your children's health...

[kpete]

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant:

"For us to enter into an expansion program would be a fool's errand," he told the Associated Press in an interview. "I mean, here we would be saying to 300,000 Mississippians, ‘We're going to provide Medicaid coverage to you,' and then the federal government through Congress or through the Senate, would do away with or alter the Affordable Care Act, and then we have no way to pay that. We have no way to continue the coverage."

MORE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/phil-bryant-medicaid-expansion

[Thinkingabout]

1. Another brilliant statement by GOP member. Maybe he thinks the ER is cheaper.

[Scuba]

2. Exact same "logic" used by Squatty Wanker in Wisconsin.

[onpatrol98]

3. Actually, he's right...

He's actually right...he just didn't finish the statement.

Because Republican governors run the state SO BADLY if the federally government ever reduced the subsidy amount or pulled out there would be no way to pay for it.

The medicaid expansion isn't the problem. REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS are the problem. They can't manage money. We don't see real revenues from the few big companies that enter the state because they feel they have to bribe them with sweet tax deals to get them here. They under fund education. So, they can't draw big companies that way. It's a sick circle. The state makes little effort to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation. As for the legislators, I'm usually glad when they don't do much, because the things they do are more likely to cause you more problems than make your life easier.

Cluster%$#@ comes to mind!