Koch Group Drops Cash In Louisiana To Oppose Medicaid Expansion
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com
The deep-pocketed tea party group Americans for Prosperity is making a major push to stop an Obamacare Medicaid expansion in Louisiana.
Even Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), facing one of the toughest Senate re-election fights of the 2014 cycle, has embraced expanding Medicaid in her home state. Landrieu's likely GOP opponent, Rep. Bill Cassidy, does not support a Medicaid expansion.
Specifically AFP, funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, is pushing all 144 state lawmakers to not support a Medicaid expansion, according to The Advocate of Louisiana.
AFP will also stage events across the state in the coming weeks to lay out its argument against Medicaid expansion.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/americans-for-prosperity-louisiana-medicaid-expansion
Garion_55
(1,915 posts)why are they so set on fucking poor people over i just dont get it. if they are evil why isnt god sending someone to wipe them out?
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Bandit
(21,475 posts)with Noah's flood because he was displeased. How do you think god works?
BodieTown
(147 posts)...and there is no daddy figure in the sky to save us.
To many anti-Americans, money is God. The Kochs have enough money to rip the heart out the United States, which they've largely already done, through decades of planning and conspiracy.
They intend to be the CEOs of this country, with other CEOs reporting to them or to the staff they set up. The USA will be run like a corporation...kind of like today, but much more rigid in the near future.
And everybody should know, by now: Corporations are dictatorships where workers have no rights.
blm
(113,091 posts).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)It must be that it slows down dying off of poor people.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Sometimes I need to pull away from DU because reading this stuff just makes my blood boil.
eggplant
(3,913 posts)When enough people benefit, we will finally rise up and deal with these assholes. So everything they can do to delay that from happening only costs them money. Which they have no shortage of.
Medicaid expansion -> Higher minimum wage -> a return to collective bargaining -> Taxing the wealthy to pay for social programs -> head start...
When people are no longer struggling to eat, avoid homelessness, be healthy, then we'll have time to look around and say WTF?
llmart
(15,552 posts)why don't they just hand it out to the poor people who need it? This shows what sorts of human beings (I use that term loosely with regards to them) they are.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)In the New Orleans area, primary care clinics that have drastically expanded since Hurricane Katrina have come to depend, in large part, on a Medicaid waiver that expires in 2014, just as the Medicaid expansion would take place.
Without an extension of that waiver which the Jindal administration has said won't happen clinic operators have urged that the state expand Medicaid. In January, city officials said almost 58,000 people were covered under the waiver program.
http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2013/03/louisiana_state_analysis_of_me.html
Jindal is part of the Red State Group of GOP lawmakers and Governors.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/red-states-remain-adamantly-opposed-medicaid-expansion
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)It has become increasingly obvious that we and our Democracy are
up against a handful of KochFascists and their desired Plutocracy.
The last time we had this fight, they finally gave in just enough to
keep us at bay for a while. We were all past ready to rest and
rejoice that the Viet Nam war was over. There can be no resting,
this time around. It's obvious to anyone not dedicated to Faux
Noose that they are making a full-court press toward a Police State.
IMHO
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Too bad these traitors can not be arrested.
Someone should start an investigation into their business and political dealings and see if some dirt that will put the in prison can be dug up.
jsr
(7,712 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)against the ACA itself. If there are not enough states to go with the plan it could fail. Possibility?