Opposing Health Funding For A Million Arizonans, Pearce Compares Health Care To High-Priced Fashion

[Swede]

As soon as Republicans swept into power in both Congress and state legislatures across the country, many of them began advocating for spending cuts they claim are intended to rein in state and federal deficits. Some of these more radical state Republicans have even pushed for their states to reject federal money for crucial programs, with Gov. Rick Perry (TX) advocating for letting states opt-out of Social Security and numerous Texas lawmakers considering pulling the state out of the Medicaid program, something the right-wing Heritage Foundation supports.

Now, Arizona state senator Russell Pearce (R), who has just been elected the president of the state senate, has launched a push to reject federal funding for the state’s Medicaid program, known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). Pearce wants the state to turn down $7 billion in federal funding that would help keep AHCCCS afloat. When asked what the more than one million Arizonans who rely on AHCCCS for care would do, Pearce told a reporter that “church, community, families got to provide


http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/08/opposing-health-pearce-fashion/

[w8liftinglady]

1. here are stats for Arizona residents..medicare,medicaid and uninsured(other states,too)

http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?ind=198&cat=4&rgn=4

[marmar]

2. Right-wingers really don't believe that everyone deserves health care.....

[w8liftinglady]

3. ...except them and theirs, of course.

[marmar]

4. Of course. And even if they're receiving government health care, they'll say they earned it.

nt

[blondeatlast]

5. Same guy who wrote SB 1070. I love this place, even while I hate it.

Sometimes I want to leave, and then I spend an hour in the desert hearing the quail and I change my mind.

[w8liftinglady]

6. I am there in solidarity..Texas is the same way.

[glinda]

7. Translation: Let's get rid of separation of Church and State and indoctrinate

people to be Christians by forcing them to be desperate and into Churches. Then start funding Churches.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Hope all who voted for this evil will be happy to watch people die.