From Axios, “Sixty percent of kids who have lost Medicaid coverage this year came from just nine states, all of which are Republican-led, according to new data from the Biden administration. And the 10 states refusing the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults have disenrolled more kids than all of the expansion states combined, the administration also reported. … Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sent letters to Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas on Monday urging them to better protect kids from losing Medicaid. … States with the smallest decreases in kids’ enrollment were largely blue states. Enrollment actually increased slightly in New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C.”
Ya know, at some point, you just have to step back to look at the whole picture and come to realize that this country and the states are exactly as people want them to be. There really is no other explanation for the state of the union, and child welfare in this country is a prime example of a nation that — on the whole — either hates children or is entirely indifferent to their well-being because voters keep electing conservative politicians to ensure the status quo never changes. Sadly, RepubliKKKlans, more often than not, remain in office and get re-elected to hurt children, although they sure do love the fetus to the point where they’ll trap women in their states and force them to death’s doorstep to prevent an abortion. RepubliKKKlans and voters have no problem with those tactics, but keep children out of poverty and provide healthcare? Hell f***ing no! RepubliKKKlans constantly tell voters what they plan on doing, which is to take America back to the 1850s. And they live up to their word. Yet, voters routinely elect them like clockwork. At some point, one must conclude that Americans want to live in a retrograde country. Oh, well. Welcome to stupid America! Dumb and lost!