Weeks into the coronavirus pandemic, the first U.S. state received approval from the Trump administration for an emergency change to its Medicaid program.
Appropriate, since it is the Trump Pandemic.
Florida’s waiver appears to be
partlyexclusively aimed at helping its large population of elderly retirees, who are particularly susceptible to serious complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirusand who disproportionately support Trump, to survive until November’s election.
FIFY!
Florida first because those in Washington state deserve their suffering for showing insufficiently fealty to their orange lord.
Nicely done! I hope the term is soon widely used.
I’ll second that!
“Florida’s waiver appears to be partly aimed at helping its large population of elderly retirees, who are particularly susceptible to serious complications from COVID-19…”
Just waiting for Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, and Debbie Lesko to introduce work-requirement legislation for all those freeloading octogenarians and their Medicaid handouts from Uncle Sugar.
Republicans must immediately cease and desist from fighting against the ACA in the courts now, and forever. If they can’t see now how desperately people need healthcare, there’s not a soul to be found in the lot of them.
Red States first.
OT: Well…so much for the pivot. Lasted 10 seconds? Bastard.
The courts are pretty much closed right now all over the country.
But I agree about the future.
You’re mistaking a pivot for a divot. Why do you think he keeps digging?
Also, whatever gave you the impression Rethugliklans had souls?
Not me. I know he’ll never stop being who he is. But some of those in the media are a different story.
The logic that is required to follow your argument is not in the skill set of GOP voters and politicians. Their souls follow the doctrine “The Lord Helps Those Who Help Themselves” and the more secular “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.”
Exactly! WA has been screaming for weeks and Florida gets the first waiver?!
A battleground state with 29 electoral votes versus a blue state with 12 electoral votes. At least Trump isn’t politicizing COVID-19 the way those Democrats are.
Wonder if this might explain some of this. It sounds about right.
Of course it’s FL…he needs FL to win in November.
Now, watch the epic footdragging on helping NY and CA…
We need Nuremberg style trials when this is over. I want that motherfucker in prison for the rest of his life.
Fucking Kushner mishandled everything from the start because he was looking to cash in and that’s fucking criminal. Trump trying to keep other countries from having the vaccine is a crime against Humanity.
We have those in MI now. Began January of this year. I wonder where that stands at present under these circumstances. I haven’t checked or looked into it yet. I was granted a personal waiver due to my health.
Uncle Sugar. I like that. He granted the first waiver to a Republican governor under this emergency authority, which I think is where the pressure point is with him. Now he has to do it for everybody. That has him sad…poor baby. Big winners…all Floridians, no matter their stripe, as Joe Biden seems to be fond of saying. Who knew we all had different stripes.