Kentucky on Friday became the first U.S. state to receive approval from the federal government to implement work requirements in Medicaid, a fundamental change to the 50-year-old government health insurance program for the poor.
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Lovely. All those poor folks in Kentucky who rely on medicaid and who continually vote Republican and love Trump–what a sack of self-destructive idjits they are. This is an awful development.
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Another nail in the coffin of Kentucky’s poor. Hundreds of thousands of them were kicked off Medicaid through Obamacare (i.e. Kynect) after Matt Bevin was elected governor.
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Right. I remember that now. McConnell and Rand Paul are the senators there, correct? Just goes to show you how voter suppression, poor education, and pandering to the religious right can keep the worst people possible in power in a state.
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Yep.
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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