Vos reaches new depths of idiocy on Medicaid expansion

At this point, the headline just made me roll my eyes instead of getting me upset.

.@SpeakerVos says no to plan that would provide Wisconsin with $1.6 billion for health care https://t.co/UJq78cJOAP via @patrickdmarley

— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) March 18, 2021

But then I read the justification that Robbin' Vos was giving for not taking Medicaid expansion, and it was the most absurd one yet.

"I think the State of Wisconsin has enough resources to be able to utilize, to make sure we have all of our priorities funded and we're not going to do it by expanding welfare," said Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester.

"Trapping people in the life of poverty is not something that there's ever the right amount of money to do."

ARE YOU SHITTING ME, ROBBIN'?

1. Medicaid is health insurance. So apparently giving more Wisconsinites access to health insurance isn't something Robbin' Vos finds to be a "priority". I'm just surprised Vos didn't repeat his typical lie of Medicaid being "government-run health care", which it is not because many people on Medicaid are using the same providers the rest of us are, and most of those are in the private/non-profit sectors.

2. You know what gets people "trapped in the life of poverty", Robbin'? When an uninsured or underinsured person has a medical emergency, and can't pay their bills as a result of the high cost of health care. Know what else does it? When people lose their jobs because they don't have paid sick leave. As recently as 2 years ago, 2/3 of Americans that went bankrupt listed medical issues as a main reason, and one bad medical episode is often the event that puts them past the point of no return.

Hey Robbin', I understand that Koch makes a man say some really dumb things, and I know you have to race-bait with the "welfare" tag to deflect from the fact that WisGOP has no legitimate justication for not expanding Medicaid and saving billions of Wisconsin taxpayer dollars. But you gotta do better than this.