While the political world is ridiculously roiled by another tweak to the healthcare law, let us all contemplate the Republicans' latest breathtaking hypocrisy on the Affordable Care Act.
Of what do we cats speak? Merely that Republicans in two of the poorest, unhealthiest states — Mississippi and Georgia, where infant and maternal mortality rates are shockingly high — are now considering bailing out state hospitals that are slammed with nonpaying patients but which, thanks to the GOP, are starved at the same time of free Medicaid-expansion money from Washington.
Got that? It would be terrible, awful, coddling and un-American to accept Medicaid funds under the ACA — so terrible that Republicans are willing to resort to that hated of all financial moves, a bailout!
The extent to which the Obama haters will bend themselves into pretzels, simply to avoid complying with the ACA even the teeniest, tinsiest bit, continues to amaze. In fact, it is obscene. We cats HISS.
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