Our president is a total and complete yutz.
THE PRESIDENT’S PLAN gives states new power to shape the package of benefits offered to some 12 million people whose states have added to their Medicaid programs. It would not affect the poorest Americans, who are automatically eligible for Medicaid coverage and whose benefits would remain unchanged. The president said Saturday he hopes states will use any savings to cover some of those with no insurance at all.
He "hopes". However, the plan doesn't require the states to reinvest the savings in healthcare for the un- or under-insured. They can do anything they want. Bush II Fraudulency is counting on states to do the right thing essentially. Um. Yeah. Right. The same states that had to be forced by federal law to provide comprehensive coverage because they refused to do it on their own. Right.
What I really love is that the man announced a plan to essentially cut healthcare for the poor just after he got his annual physical. Irony, anyone? I mean, could he give people a better compare and contrast moment for a campaign issue or politicking with?
I swear, if the man had a brain, he'd be even more dangerous. As it is, he's quite bad enough.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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