In the Arizona Republic today, "Health-care providers say they're under siege from the Legislature, battling against a raft of proposals to shrink the public system and bring illegal-immigration enforcement into hospital corridors and doctors' offices.
"Bills making their way through the legislative process would add fees for people on the state's Medicaid program, withhold federal emergency-care funding from hospitals that treat illegal immigrants and make it a crime if health-care workers fail to report people without proper documentation. "We feel like we're getting assaulted from all sides," said Tara McCollum Plese of the Arizona Association of Community Health Centers. "My folks are just frantic right now."
Wait for it. The other shoe drops, "Republican lawmakers who support the bills say the state can no longer afford its burgeoning indigent-health-care program, which now insures more than 1.3 million Arizonans, and they believe those who qualify should shoulder more of the costs."
Let them die. Let them suffer. Let them go broke. Those lousy indigents have no right to anything -- it may as well be directly stated. In Arizona , the poor are expendable.
The GOP loves sending our boys and girls to wars. When that is the method that the GOP exhibits its hatred of US citizens it is pretty simple to look up the casualties to see how many people died. With this tactic there is not a direct correlation between policy and fatality, but as the article states "Well, no matter. Arizona is about to become the first stare in the nation that definitively attaches a value to human life in dollars and cents. And 1.3 million lives have a value of exactly zero. Zero. A tragedy in the making wouldn't even touch an accurate description of it all."
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Republicans in Missouri want to repeal child labor laws:
SB 222 – This act modifies the child labor laws. It eliminates the prohibition on employment of children under age fourteen. Restrictions on the number of hours and restrictions on when a child may work during the day are also removed. It also repeals the requirement that a child ages fourteen or fifteen obtain a work certificate or work permit in order to be employed. Children under sixteen will also be allowed to work in any capacity in a motel, resort or hotel where sleeping accommodations are furnished. It also removes the authority of the director of the Division of Labor Standards to inspect employers who employ children and to require them to keep certain records for children they employ. It also repeals the presumption that the presence of a child in a workplace is evidence of employment.
This law has been temporarily withdrawn due to public outcry.
Texas, a state that underfunds education in the best of times, is now experiencing huge budget shortfalls, in spite of being tight on spending. Proposed budget cuts could lay-off 100,000 school employees, 60,000 nursing home workers and eliminate 9,600 state jobs this year.
Texas Economic Miracle In Peril
Quite a hit on Texas’ poor and middle class folks.
Unfortunately, more to come.
