Governors have implied this is some kind of trap because in the out years, the federal budget pays "only" 90%. SO these pea-brains believe, or at least are arguing, that "sure, maybe it is good in 2014 but it will kill us in 2020.

No. That's not how economics works. If you get $1,000,000,000 in federal support, that money mostly goes into the payrolls and other taxable payments. That billion dollars kicks off a huge amount in sales and income taxes for the state. And then there is the multiplier. This is a big economic development program. Nurses that are employed because of Medicaid expansion are no longer receiving assistance because they were unemployed. And they spend their salaries at restaurants and other stores. That pays more salaries which leads to more tax revenue for the state.

By 2020, the state does have to put up $100,000,000 to match that billion. But they will easily collect that much in additional taxes (and reduction of services for the unemployed) resulting from that extra economic activity.

Even if Republicans don't give a shit about anybody's health -- and they don't -- this is a no-brainer economic development program. Every Governor who has refused to expand Medicaid should be attached every single day on the basis of his economic stupidity.

Fl.'s incoming R Majority leader has stated he won't bring Medicaid to a vote again and won't let Dems bring it to the floor for a vote either. They are so fucking stupid, they really just think poor people should die and are so blindly opposed to anything Obama does that they are willing to kill the citizens of this state just to make sure the ACA doesn't work well in FL. They think that poor people will be pissed off because of the cost and will blame the Dems, because they passed this program. Unfortunately, with all the adverse ads, they could be right - sickening as that is.

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This is why we must attack them on ECONOMIC grounds. Forget about the health of the poor people. You governors don't care about them, and the people who vote for you don't care about them. In fact they might even like you more when you show pure contempt for the poor.

But passing on a no-brainer economic development program hurts EVERYBODY, not just the poor people.

Everything else is just for show and reality will not dissuade them as they line their own pockets.

in and out of emergency rooms where the symptoms are somewhat dealt with temporarily and they are "stabilized" and then pushed back out onto the street.

Were they all red states that did not expand?

I think all the states refusing to provide Medicaid to all low income people have Republican Governors

http://www.advisory.com/Daily-Briefing/Resources/Primers/MedicaidMap

that the Best health insurance was a good job,,,,,,,,,,, Hello anybody home in Alabama?

But history will show that they were especially wrong on opposing healthcare reform, and it will cost the GOP dearly.