A Glimpse of Republican Paradise 0
In North Carolina:
Now, at age 54 and two surgeries later, Baginski finds herself at an Urban Ministries homeless shelter in Durham – uninsured and applying for disability. Her former $28,000-a-year job today seems like an unattainable dream.
While Baginski’s reversal of fortune is beyond anyone’s control, the fate of her health care rests in the hands of North Carolina politicians. She is among a half-million state residents who would have been eligible for Medicaid in January had officials here opted to expand that government program for the poor and disabled.
But North Carolina, like about half the states, rejected Medicaid expansion because Obama.
Read the rest, if you can stomach it.
The Republican Party–Meanness, just because it can.
