Pennsylvania Republican Governor Tom Corbett became the 10th Republican governor to support Medicaid expansion to 682,000 people in Pennsylvania.
Kentucky’s Governor Steve Beshear says it will help 308,000 people and inject $15.6 billion of federal money into the Kentucky economy.
Governor Beshear does not name names or call people out directly, but his New York Times article is a brilliant implicit condemnation for the behavior of most of the Republican governors around the country.
The attitude they have taken is that since no Obamacare is better than even the best possible version of Obamacare, they should try to engineer the worst possible version of
Obamacare in order to hasten its demise.
As Chernyshevsky and Lenin said, “The worse, the better.” And that attitude, really,
has always been one of the worst sins in political radicals of different stripes. A callous
willingness to sacrifice concrete human interests in the here and now in pursuit of
long-term ideological ends is a great way to make sure people end up worse off than the (y)
otherwise could be. Beshear is trying to act like a proper public official and make things
go well for people in Kentucky. Too many governors are hoping to make things go poorly and then point fingers.
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