Based on other situations, I'd suggest that the anti-Medicaid enthusiasm in the "base" comes from those who have just enough to be excluded from Medicaid. They don't want to see the very poor "freeloaders" get something they can't have. May sound convoluted, but old NYT reporting on welfare showed this effect........
Based on other situations, I'd suggest that the anti-Medicaid enthusiasm in the "base" comes from those who have just enough to be excluded from Medicaid. They don't want to see the very poor "freeloaders" get something they can't have. May sound convoluted, but old NYT reporting on welfare showed this effect........
ItтАЩs the same logic that kept poor whites feeling superior to Blacks, even though both groups would have benefited from joining together to try to raise wages, etc.
Based on other situations, I'd suggest that the anti-Medicaid enthusiasm in the "base" comes from those who have just enough to be excluded from Medicaid. They don't want to see the very poor "freeloaders" get something they can't have. May sound convoluted, but old NYT reporting on welfare showed this effect........
Yes, that makes sense with those people.
ItтАЩs the same logic that kept poor whites feeling superior to Blacks, even though both groups would have benefited from joining together to try to raise wages, etc.
"You may be both living in a cardboard box, but his is *wet*"
Pecking orderтАж