monkeyknifefight | robot-heart-politics | howisthisprolife:
“According to NPR, Pennsylvania is terminating its AdultBasic Insurance program as of February 28th, 2011. It currently provides extremely low-cost health insurance coverage ($36/month) for 42,000 Pennsylvanians who are poor but not poor enough to be covered by Medicaid. Tomorrow it will cease to exist.
Why is it being axed? Because the state has a $4 billion dollar budget shortfall and, as one Republican State Senator in Pennsylvania says, “our governor has said he will not raise any taxes”.
Sound familiar?
I have heretofore avoided reblogging politics on here, but this is too important, and people SHOULD care, even Bat Fans just here for the pretty.
(Source: asshatexpress)
its so infuriating to feel so powerless
In PA? Have AdultBasic? Not anymore. FAILTASTIC.
One of the things I’m proudest of in the UK is our NHS. Every time I read something about health care in the US I...
I have heretofore avoided reblogging politics on here, but this is too important, and people SHOULD care, even Bat Fans...
Disgusting. I’m becoming more and more disgusted by the way that the country is slowly heading towards.
but don’t you see? thanks to their newly increased medical bills, they’ll soon be poor enough to qualify for medicaid!...
Wouldn’t want rich people...have to pay taxes.
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