Cutting Medicaid Will Help Hurricane Victims

[OzarkDem]

Doesn't say how exactly, only that it will.

I can't believe the nerve of these idiots

From The Hill e-newsletter

Barton: Medicaid cuts will help Gulf Coast states
Proposed reductions in Medicaid spending, coupled with a restructuring of the joint federal-state healthcare program for the poor "will help the very states that are trying to deal with Katrina," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) asserted at a hearing yesterday. Republicans have come under fire in recent days for planning to move ahead with $10 billion in cuts to Medicaid in the next five years at a time when hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have been displaced by a natural catastrophe. Democrats have charged that the Medicaid cuts would directly harm victims of Katrina. "These arguments are patently false. Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina will not be put in jeopardy because of these reform proposals," Barton insisted. He also vowed that Congress and states in the Gulf Coast region would work together to ensure Medicaid benefits to the victims of Katrina.

[RC]

1. If Joe Barton would sign all his earthly possessions over to me,

he could still live in the manner in which he has become accustom even though he would be destitute and on the street. Makes as much sense.

[undergroundpanther]

2. WTF

EAT THE RICH,because if we don't stop them soon,we will die from their rapacious greed.