GOP cruelty is not new, but it seems to be reaching new depths. Case in point: In Kentucky, Gov. Matt Bevin is now using the lives of Medicaid patients like pieces on a chessboard in an act of revenge and political spectacle.
Governor Bevin’s administration announced that he would deprive Medicaid patients of dental and vision benefits, effective immediately. This unilateral (and some say illegal) maneuver impacts 460,000 peoplein Kentucky. This occurred just hours after a federal court stopped his Kentucky Health plan, which would throw people off Medicaid with work requirements, deductibles and other administrative and economic obstacles.
The case in question is Stewart v. Azar. Through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Trump administration announced new guidelines in January to remake the program in the GOP’s image. His administration told the states they could implement work requirements and many other “community engagement” policies. These approaches have nothing to do with providing care, and everything to do with gutting the rolls. They would fundamentally change Medicaid, turning a program aimed at helping the deserving poor into a program that disciplines them for being poor in the first place.
On June 29, Federal Judge James E. Boasberg of the DC circuit, rejected Trump’s Department of […]
Actions like this should surprise no one Republicans are very transparent concerning their moral compass, they have none.
Poverty is a major human failing according to those in charge and should be punished. A friend loaned me a book that I couldn’t do more than scan, too sad.
The book “Not a Crime to be Poor” by Peter Edelman talks about people who become entangled in the “justice system” and have no money to pay so they stay in jail even if innocent. of course being poor is the crime, debtor’s prisons.
According to those in charge poverty is a burden on society that can be fixed if the poor would hurry up and die. In the meantime we will extract every bit of money they have.