To be a "yes," Ron Johnson demands certainty on Medicaid cuts

Apparently Tea Party GOP Wisconsin US Senator Ron Johnson said Friday he wants to be sure that Medicaid reductions take place, and we have 50 state approaches to just how many low-income Americans remain on Medicaid before he's willing to say the Senate's 'health care' bill is punitive enough to win his support:

Johnson, who spoke to about two dozen Greater Green Bay Chamber members and other invited guests, favors Medicaid reform based on giving states more control of the program and ending the Medicaid expansion allowed under Obamacare.

In other words, your basic 'go-die-and-don't trouble-the-better-off-folks' approach to low-income Americans medical needs they enjoyed in the good old  early Medicaid days, like back when the program started in 1965.

No need to improve on that, despite a few recessions, structural changes to the economy, de-industrialization, a housing crash, employment outsourcing, workplace health insurance minimization, etc., which all have shrunk the middle class as medical costs have gone through the roof.

But Johnson knows what Johnson wants in the Republican 'health care' bill if  the approval of Obamacare with its unconscionable expansion of Medicaid - - the worst assault on Johnson's freedom in lifetime - - can finally be repealed and replaced with a right-wing, states rights measure to restore the 1965's social order.

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