Damn the lazy poor kids that want health insurance. If they cared that much, they would go out and work for a living. Five years old and suffering from hunger, you say? Let them eat cockroaches. Well, I exaggerate. But I'm just so excited by the stand Pennsylvania Republican Governor Tom Corbett is taking -- by not taking the Medicaid expansion President Obama offered in his health care reform bill. Corbett is the 11th GOP Governor to make this grand political sacrifice to show the world he means business when it comes to his ideological positions (HuffPo). And the cost to the people of Pennsylvania? Minimal, really. It only costs coverage to the 542,000 poor people in the state who would otherwise receive the help they probably don't need anyway. Isn't there an overpopulation problem, anyway?
Obviously it will cost them too much money, right? Hmm, wrong again. The federal government will pay 100% of the cost between 2014 and 2016 and still cover 90% by 2022. Overall, about 3 million of the potentially 17 million who could benefit from the program as poverty increases will lose out based on this position. But in a world of flip-floppers and liberals, it's good to see the GOP take a stand. Screw the poor; we have business and Wall Street interests to represent. I mean, they are the ones paying for us to be in office, aren't they. Poverty is a moral failing, right?
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