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Doodley

(9,191 posts)
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 04:53 PM Feb 2019

Media fuming over Northam, but where's any outrage over Governors who refused to expand Medicaid? [View all]

In my state alone, over half a million people don't have health care that should do.

Never, do we hear the same kind of outrage over people dying in the wealthiest nation on the planet because their governor has rejected Medicaid expansion.

This isn't even a double standard. There is no standard. Yes, he needs to go, but when is the media going to give a damn about policy and how policy affects lives?


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Exactly, we let ourselves get played again and again. Lucca2 Feb 2019 #1
We get played by saying no way in hell to racism? MLAA Feb 2019 #2
You mean Medicaid. nt KWR65 Feb 2019 #3
Thank you. I have fixed the OP. Doodley Feb 2019 #5
"Off With His Head" is an Easy, Go-To, Short-Term Solution dlk Feb 2019 #4
Easy, accept the Medicare Expansion. All the heavy lifting has been done Merlot Feb 2019 #8
I'm sure Justin Fairfax will continue Virginia's Medicaid expansion IronLionZion Feb 2019 #6
Good point. Doodley Feb 2019 #10
Did any Democrats refuse to expand Medicaid? McCamy Taylor Feb 2019 #7
No, but who is calling for the Republican governors who blocked it in their state to resign? Doodley Feb 2019 #12
You can start a petition to recall them if you want IronLionZion Feb 2019 #14
Funny how that didn't seem to be a big concern until today, eh? EffieBlack Feb 2019 #16
+++++++++++++++++++++++ still_one Feb 2019 #18
Never.. it's all a game to them.. Lives don't matter... advertising dollars matter... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #9
Very well stated. Hate matters, not lives. Doodley Feb 2019 #13
Sigh EffieBlack Feb 2019 #11
LOL! IronLionZion Feb 2019 #15
He said he was genuinely sorry. If his actions as gov were a reflection of his gaff, Thekaspervote Feb 2019 #17
He is sorry for what? Not being in the photo that yesterday he apologized for? Doodley Feb 2019 #20
The media may never give a damn Politicub Feb 2019 #19
Just what I want. . . . BALANCED outrage. pdsimdars Feb 2019 #21
Does it occur to you how much like a conservative you sound fountainofyouth Feb 2019 #23
Does it occur to you . . . pdsimdars Feb 2019 #28
Another example of using Republicans as a measuring stick for justice fountainofyouth Feb 2019 #22
K&R UTUSN Feb 2019 #24
The voters in those states chose it though treestar Feb 2019 #25
What does one have to do with the other? mcar Feb 2019 #26
Fuck all? Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #29
"What about..." lapucelle Feb 2019 #27
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