"medical ghetto" -Lamar's 21st century "welfare checks in Cadillacs"

[underpants]

Sen. Lamar Alexander Repeatedly Calls Medicaid A ‘Medical Ghetto’

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/21/alexander-medicaid-ghetto/

– “We’ve heard eloquent statements about how moving 15 million low-income Americans into a program called Medicaid, which is a medical ghetto, is not health care reform.”

– “The governor of Tennessee, who is a Democratic governor, has estimated that the cost to our state of this bill — of moving 15 million Americans into this medical ghetto — is about $800 million over five years.”

– “Or arrogant in its dumping of 15 million low-income Americans into a medical ghetto called Medicaid that none of us, or any of our families, would ever want to be a part of for our health care.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IMeM9WYBk

[marmar]

1. How do POSes like this get elected to Senate?

I can understand the House, because they come from districts, but Senate?


Cornyn, Shelby, Chambliss, Hatch, Sessions, Lieberman....WTF???? :wtf:

[OHdem10]

2. Just cannot resist dividing constituents and doing everything he can

to make sure poor people do not sign up for Medicaid.