Cowardly Culture Warrior Mitch Daniels Makes His Move

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by Kay

When Mitch Daniels said he wanted to end the culture wars, he meant start one:

Republican Governor Mitch Daniels released a statement Friday afternoon saying he will sign legislation stripping federal funds from Planned Parenthood in Indiana, the first state to make such a move.
“We do around 500 pap tests a week,” Indiana Planned Parenthood President Betty Cockrum told TPM in an interview earlier on Friday. “We will be making phone calls to Medicaid patients all over the state and telling them, either you have to pay for that pap test out of pocket, or you need to find someone else who can take you as a Medicaid patient. We can’t do it anymore.”
There are 28 Planned Parenthood centers in the state. Almost 60 percent of patients seen last year were living under the poverty line.

We just had a two year long debate that started with the premise that we needed to expand access to health care. Republicans are now launching an effort to close existing, affordable health care clinics, state by state. Paul Ryan’s plan will throw millions of current Medicaid recipients off Medicaid. We’re going backwards.

The Republican health care plans are designed to make certain fewer people have access to affordable health care. Did the people who voted for these guys know that Repeal and Replace meant “repeal the existing health care system”? I don’t believe they did.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/04/29/cowardly-culture-warrior-mitch-daniels-makes-his-move/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. A very sad day for Indiana...

I often wonder when and if the pain of a bad economy and the ravages of outsourcing will focus some of my fellow Hoosiers on the real source of their pain. I continue to believe that, at least in Indiana, latent racism fed by AM hate radio is a primary reason so many vote against their own interests. It is simply a tragedy that we are losing such a vital, basic, life-saving service because the GOP has gone insane.

[safeinOhio]

2. I worked for a contractor a while back

and he referred to Indiana as "the state of the $8.00 job".

[indypaul]

3. It becomes more obvious every day

why he chooses to live in a gated community rather than the
Governors mansion provided by the state.

[freshwest]

4. Absolutely. A more common practice than in the past. Won't associate with the little people.