The Moral Question of the Medicaid Expansion | Paul Waldman @ The American Prospect
When a policy change is being debated, it’s not unreasonable to say that you oppose this particular change because the change you’d like to see is a different one, even if your preferred change isn’t going to happen any time soon. But that’s not the choice. The choice these governors face is between people having no health insurance, and people getting covered through Medicaid. And what they’re saying to their own citizens is: I’d rather you have no health coverage than get covered through a government program. And if you get sick or get in an accident, well, maybe you should have thought of that before you went getting all poor.