Koch Group Drops Cash In Louisiana To Oppose Medicaid Expansion

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: talkingpointsmemo.com

The deep-pocketed tea party group Americans for Prosperity is making a major push to stop an Obamacare Medicaid expansion in Louisiana.

Even Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), facing one of the toughest Senate re-election fights of the 2014 cycle, has embraced expanding Medicaid in her home state. Landrieu's likely GOP opponent, Rep. Bill Cassidy, does not support a Medicaid expansion.

Specifically AFP, funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, is pushing all 144 state lawmakers to not support a Medicaid expansion, according to The Advocate of Louisiana.

AFP will also stage events across the state in the coming weeks to lay out its argument against Medicaid expansion.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/americans-for-prosperity-louisiana-medicaid-expansion

[Garion_55]

1. why the fuck do these bastards care?

why are they so set on fucking poor people over i just dont get it. if they are evil why isnt god sending someone to wipe them out?

[upaloopa]

3. God don't work that way if there is a God

[Bandit]

18. God wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah because they were "evil", God wiped out entire earth

with Noah's flood because he was displeased. How do you think god works?

[BodieTown]

8. No Doubt: They ARE Evil...

...and there is no daddy figure in the sky to save us.

To many anti-Americans, money is God. The Kochs have enough money to rip the heart out the United States, which they've largely already done, through decades of planning and conspiracy.

They intend to be the CEOs of this country, with other CEOs reporting to them or to the staff they set up. The USA will be run like a corporation...kind of like today, but much more rigid in the near future.

And everybody should know, by now: Corporations are dictatorships where workers have no rights.

[blm]

13. It's their plan for population control

.

[freshwest]

16. There it is.

[freshwest]

15. Less poor people, more space and resources for the rich. It's a silent genocide. n/t

[upaloopa]

2. What is the argument against Medicaid expansion?

It must be that it slows down dying off of poor people.

[OKNancy]

4. I don't get it either unless they see it as a symbol of "creeping socialism"

Sometimes I need to pull away from DU because reading this stuff just makes my blood boil.

[eggplant]

5. Because every time we make social progress, their position weakens.

When enough people benefit, we will finally rise up and deal with these assholes. So everything they can do to delay that from happening only costs them money. Which they have no shortage of.

Medicaid expansion -> Higher minimum wage -> a return to collective bargaining -> Taxing the wealthy to pay for social programs -> head start...

When people are no longer struggling to eat, avoid homelessness, be healthy, then we'll have time to look around and say WTF?

[Auggie]

12. Agree

[llmart]

6. For all the money these "koch*******" throw around.....

why don't they just hand it out to the poor people who need it? This shows what sorts of human beings (I use that term loosely with regards to them) they are.

[freshwest]

17. That goes against the plan. They want them dead, we need to understand what this is. n/t

[DhhD]

7. The Medicaid Wavier after Hurricane Katrina expires in 2014. Jindal does not believe that it will.

In the New Orleans area, primary care clinics that have drastically expanded since Hurricane Katrina have come to depend, in large part, on a Medicaid waiver that expires in 2014, just as the Medicaid expansion would take place.

Without an extension of that waiver – which the Jindal administration has said won't happen – clinic operators have urged that the state expand Medicaid. In January, city officials said almost 58,000 people were covered under the waiver program.

http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2013/03/louisiana_state_analysis_of_me.html

Jindal is part of the Red State Group of GOP lawmakers and Governors.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/red-states-remain-adamantly-opposed-medicaid-expansion

[MoreGOPoop]

9. K & R

It has become increasingly obvious that we and our Democracy are
up against a handful of KochFascists and their desired Plutocracy.

The last time we had this fight, they finally gave in just enough to
keep us at bay for a while. We were all past ready to rest and
rejoice that the Viet Nam war was over. There can be no resting,
this time around. It's obvious to anyone not dedicated to Faux
Noose that they are making a full-court press toward a Police State.

IMHO

[SamKnause]

10. Koch

Too bad these traitors can not be arrested.

Someone should start an investigation into their business and political dealings and see if some dirt that will put the in prison can be dug up.

[jsr]

11. CORRECTED: Koch Group Wants Working Poor to Suffer and Die

[sadoldgirl]

14. Perhaps this is directed

against the ACA itself. If there are not enough states to go with the plan it could fail. Possibility?