“These are generally able bodied working folks, because if they were disabled they would already be on Medicaid without expansion,” Griffith said. “And so as a result of that, they will be going to either making enough money to buy their own insurance, or they go on an employer’s plan, or they go into some other plan.”
The people using Medicaid expansion work at low-paid jobs, sometimes two or three low-paid jobs, and cannot afford health insurance premiums, so they should be punished for working for low pay and shoved off into “some other plan”, as yet undecided. The hard-hearted elected officials who are generously paid with our tax money have no concept of what it is to be poor or to live from paycheck to paycheck.
“These are generally able bodied working folks, because if they were disabled they would already be on Medicaid without expansion,” Griffith said. “And so as a result of that, they will be going to either making enough money to buy their own insurance, or they go on an employer’s plan, or they go into some other plan.”
Um, many able bodied working folks didn’t have insurance pre-Obamacare. That was the whole point.
GOP lawmakers from non-expansion states have been complaining that maintaining or freezing ACA’s Medicaid expansion was unfair to them because their states’ taxpayers would be paying federal tax dollars for a program Republicans had objected to under President Obama. The extra DSH money for those states is meant to ameliorate that sense of unfairness.
Translation: We didn’t opt-in when we could so now we’re running crying to that awful Federal Gov’t to make us not sad.
Trumpcare is really turning out to be a real turd and will have so many people insured, NOT. Republicans are proving every day to be the party of billionaires. Poor and middle class are not even second class citizens to republicans.