PA Republican Governor: Pregnant Women, Breast Cancer Patients Are Free Health Care Moochers

[Tx4obama]

Governor: Pregnant Women, Breast Cancer Patients Are Free Health Care Moochers

Pennsylvania Republicans have decided against expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, arguing that covering more low-income residents would cost the state too much money. But last week, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) went a step further, telling a local news station that poor residents who are already enrolled in the program, including pregnant women and breast cancer patients, are receiving too much free care and should pay into the system.

“What I hear all the time coming out of the administration in Washington is that it’s the working poor [who benefit from Medicaid],” Corbett told WTAE, a local ABC affiliate, on Saturday. “Yes it is working, but you should be investing five, ten dollars in co-pay to understand that you go to to the hospital or the doctors, you just can’t keep going and going and going and think everything is going to be covered. You have to know that you have some interest in what’s going on.”

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Full article and video here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/09/2270331/governor-thinks-pregnant-women-breast-cancer-patients-should-pay-more-for-health-care/

[niyad]

1. does this smug, self-righteous, lying sob get free health care as governor? or is he wealthy

enough to afford care without having to worry about whether he can afford to feed his family?

[cutroot]

2. They keep going lower

Every day I think that they have hit the bottom and they prove me wrong. It must consume a lot of time and energy to be that morose.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Just female patients in need of treatment, didja notice?

Man, these guys really really really hate breasts and uteruses....

[dsc]

5. actually he didn't mention any kind of patients at all

he said all patients should pay the co pays.

[niyad]

10. yes, he did--specifically, the working poor. implied that they were too stupid and free-loading

to be interested in the outcome.

and, there is this, which he clearly referenced:



Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare website has a dedicated webpage to “Copayment Information for Medical Assistance Recipients,” which explains that while children, pregnant women, and breast cancer patients, among others, don’t pay the fees, many beneficiaries do contribute for the services they receive. Corbett appears to suggest that the exempt enrollees are abusing the free services and that everyone should pay more for health care.

[dsc]

12. my point is that he wasn't specifically mentioning females as think progress said

[tanyev]

4. Probably getting sick on purpose just to mooch that free health care.

[ShadowLiberal]

16. And don't forget their kids being born sick just to mooch that free health care

It's true Corbett, I'm a PA resident and I was born with congenital heart problems just so that I could mooch off the tax payers with a nearly month long hospital stay when I was born!

Well... I did half of it right, I mooched off my father's family health insurance plan instead, but most of that was paid for by the company he worked for anyway! And now I'm mooching off of my own healthcare plan (I just had open heart surgery 7/2/2013), which is mostly paid for by the company I work for!

I LOVE getting sick just so that I know I'm mooching off of someone else!

[okaawhatever]

6. I have no problem with having co pays that are a percentage of someone's income.

However, if they don't make enough money, that number is ZERO D-Bag. Are they supposed to give up their $4.50 per day in food stamps and not eat to pay that? Maybe if people had better access to primary care, they wouldn't need to leave a job or could go back to work. Just a thought Mr. Fiscal conservative.

[Yavin4]

8. Are Corbett, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, LePage, and Kasich in some of kind of contest

to see which one is the biggest asshole governor in America? Is this some new reality show?

[AlinPA]

9. He is an ignorant and stupid teabagger. PA has gone down the drain, controlled by the teabaggers.

[otohara]

11. You'd Think They'd LOVE Abortion

what a motherfucker...

I watched Gasland II last night - Ed Rendell is a POS too.

[sbh]

13. He's right up there with Perry, Walker, and Kasich.

[DhhD]

14. Greed and bigotry have blinded this sorry Bag of Hateful Sh*t Hater.

http://www.prb.org/Publications/PolicyBriefs/HiddenSufferingDisabilitiesFromPregnancyandChildbirthinLDCs.aspx?p=1

http://www.uniteforsight.org/women-children-course/preconception-prenatal-women

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1619097/

The taxpayers can help before the baby is born or after the baby is born for the years oflife of the child and the mother in many instances.

Pennsylvania GOP: sorry example of leadership. IMO the politicians pushing this to the People of Pennsylvania, should be voted out of office. They choose suffering for everyone over prenatal care and birth control.

[Joe Bacon]

15. Are Republican Governors having an asshole contest?

Really they're out assholing each other! Are the Koch Brothers dangling money in front of them to be the most outrageous?