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By Bruce Barry in Barry, Politics
Mon., Nov. 23 2009 @ 12:00PM
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​When discussing (read: doing everything possible to kill) health care reform of late, Sen. Lamar Alexander has taken to referring to Medicaid as a health-care "ghetto." He did it again yesterday on Fox News Sunday, calling the reform bill before the Senate a measure that "has higher premiums, higher taxes, Medicare cuts, puts 15 million more low-income Americans into a medical ghetto called Medicaid." Let's have us a quick look at the dictionary definition of a ghetto:
A section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships....

Any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment.
Medicaid, of course, is a very popular social program that makes health care available to something like 60 million people. Yes, by all means let's publicly stigmatize the tens of millions of people who can't afford health insurance in Lamar Alexander's America. That'll fix our nation's pathetically inadequate health-care system.
Tags: health care, ill-advised metaphors, Lamar Alexander
5 comment(s) / Post a Comment
Chris Allen says:

Bruce, he doesn't really mean that. Come on man, play along. He was on Fox! A Republican has to talk like that on Fox. Otherwise, people will say he is BFF with Al Franken or something. If he went on NPR or The News Hour with Lehrer, he would have said something more intelligent, because teabaggers don't pay any attention to those. And he has to make sure he keeps the Teabaggers from openly talking about running Marsha against him in the next primary. I'm sure you understand now.

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 12:19PM
Gilbert Jr. says:

I fail to see a single reason in the whole world why I should care about a socialist program like Medicaid or the lazy layabouts who take advantage of such government handouts. If you can't afford health insurance, that's your problem, not mine!

All Democrats are commies.

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 1:12PM
Emmett Flatus says:

With a little editing perhaps you'll understand what he may have being trying to communicate:

"Medicaid, of course, is a very popular social program that makes health care available to something like 60 million people.

"...predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships...."

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 3:54PM
Anonymous says:

Just through him a $100 mill, he'll come around

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 8:19PM
nero fiddler says:

Very nice Emmett, very nice

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 6 2009 @ 6:28AM


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