This is why Republicans must be destroyed.

[trumad]

A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.

Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help. The federal government will pay for the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years.

Those excluded will be stranded without insurance, stuck between people with slightly higher incomes who will qualify for federal subsidies on the new health exchanges that went live this week, and those who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in its current form, which has income ceilings as low as $11 a day in some states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/health/millions-of-poor-are-left-uncovered-by-health-law.html?hp&_r=0

[rgbecker]

1. Admit it. GOP wants those folks out of their states.

Hoping they will move to the Blue states where people care about their neighbors.

[TheKentuckian]

2. No, they don't want their census to go down they just want those folks disenfranchised, destitute,

and under control to boost the reserve workforce to drive down wages and if possible bear the brunt of funding the military and corporate welfare that the TeaPubliKlans love.

[Orrex]

4. I think that's it exactly

Keep them helpless and desperate and easy to control. But keep them on the rolls to ensure that the cash keeps rolling in.

[Myrina]

6. ^ This ^

Sadly. And it's very evident here in Indiana where a recent study showed that our 'standard of living' is comparable with the rest of the country's, in 1995. Because Daniels - and now Pence - keeps bringing in asshole companies who pay crap, offer no bene's, rape the landscape and take a shit-ton of tax abatements.

[geek tragedy]

7. Next Tea Party initiative: poor people are 3/5 of a person nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. That's a potent meme with some truth about the Tea party in it. nt

[TheKentuckian]

13. Pretty much, geek

Actually, I think they want to maneuver back to requiring significant property ownership to vote and then count at 100% for "best of both worlds", full census/limited electorate pretty much limited to wealthy whites but if an Alan Keyes or a Mr. 9-9-9 gets counted in then they'll suck it as a blue moon kinda event.

[dsharp88]

5. No, the GOP wants them dead.

Why else deny them healthcare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc? So they will die sooner. It's an American Holocaust generated by a domestic terrorist organization led by right-wing extremists to eliminate those who aren't pure.

Wait, didn't this happen somewhere before?

[Snake Plissken]

9. You can't make money off them it's their dead

They want them in 'for profit' prisons

[dsharp88]

11. That's why they buy judges - to hand down jail terms for ridiculously small...

non-violent offenses.

[Spirochete]

12. And they're trying to hurry that up even more

by saturating the country with guns, then vilifying the poor at every turn.

[mnhtnbb]

3. My state of NC is one of them...and the refusal to extend Medicaid

is one of the reasons for the protests of "Moral Mondays" organized
by the NC NAACP but very largely supported by a diversity of
races.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. The problem with slaves is that they're too damn expensive.

The price of a good slave in 1855, in today's dollars, would be about $100,000. And then you have to feed them and put up with their illnesses and do something with them when they get too old to work.

Fortunately, American corporations have found the answer. Don't buy the slaves--just lease them for a few bucks an hour & let the Gubmint worry about supplementing their rations. Keep their hours too low for health care, and if they get too sick to work, fire them. Ditto when they get too old to work.