The governor has obviously seen or heard of a need for Medicaid expansion in the state. Thune ought to visit it once in awhile

While home, they're usually addressing a RW group's meeting, where the echo chamber is loud and clear. It's groups like Chamber of Commerce, Right to Life, Farm Bureau and other RW groups.

own party. Plus they really do not want to learn the truth because it does not fit with their philosophy.

Lincoln's famous words:

"...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Never!!!, As long as the GOP is still in existence, the government will continue to be our enemy. It's quite sickening.

They don't want the government to rein in their lawlessness.

government helping all those welfare queens. When they see government as the enemy they are overlooking what it does for them.

I was raised by a father who every April 15 would explain to us kids all the things we get from government - roads, school buses, schools, libraries, snow removal, ect. Unfortunately many of our churches also teach that the government is our enemy.

background or knowledge to make, or pass bills. Republicans don't want people to get well or be able to seek medical help. Republicans prefer death over life, except for the unborn. That is why the voters need to select a party that really cares about all life.. Defeat the GOP in 2016 or they will defeat you if they win. It is the party of destruction.

is many people can't work because they are sick, and they can't afford to get well.

They say it's about individual freedom and responsibility, and mean it; but in practice these days just who they believe is "responsible" and deserving of the freedoms of opportunity they supposedly earned for themselves is too often tied to the amount of money they have.

I've read that this time last century and during the Great Depression this conservative contempt for those who suffered economic downturns wasn't so strong. People could be ruined economically and still be accepted as responsible citizens by their communities. It changed with the development of wide-spread safety net programs and the subsequent conservative fallacy that America is chock full of people who'd prefer languishing in poverty on welfare to working.

Now it's to the point where many hide being ruined even by medical bills because they're ashamed of having fallen among the great undeserving. Often their neighbors don't really know why they moved away.

and yet conservatives believe that no one is actually denied medical care and we can have a fund raiser to take care of that. For the conservatives in my area, fund raisers are great social events, and they don't raise enough funds for one hour of intensive care.

plants at the arboretum. We could exchange brief glances while our friends chatted happily about their charitable activities.

We're, most of us, VERY conservative and very devout here, and there are a lot of charitable activities that do real good. But like your fundraisers, by far most local need goes unmet by them, leaving the rest of America to address it through those nasty big-government programs, no begging for assistance in church required.

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seems to respond to. A hit in the face.. that's what Trump is from the other side.

what is it Republicans? "more profit" to try to care for very sick,near death persons instead of preventative care?

The GOP are worried that hospitals are shutting down because they can not get access to the Medicaid money and the AFCA has cut way back on covering uninsured in the ER.
It is always about the bottom dollar for the GOP, their donors bottom dollar.