Presently Medicaid, the health care program for the poor jointly administered by the states and federal government, is only available in most states for individuals who meet financial eligibility criteria and belong to one of the following groups: children, parents, pregnant women, the disabled and some seniors. Most adults without children are disqualified from coverage.
As the health care bill was originally written, beginning in 2014 if a state did not expand Medicaid to cover all individuals under the age of 65 with incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level ($14,856 in 2012), the federal government could withhold all its funding for Medicaid to that state. Rejecting this mechanism, the Supreme Court likened it to the federal government holding a “gun to the head” of the states.
As if these governors give a shit. They don't. This is all about playing politics.
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One only has to look at the situation with Caterpillar workers to know how bad things are for working people in this economy:
The desired outcome is a situation in which manufacturing workers make little more than service workers. This is already the reality at many companies. At the Three Rivers plant run by auto parts maker American Axle—the scene of a bitter strike in 2008 that was isolated by the United Auto Workers and ended in defeat—new hires start at $10 an hour. This amounts to about $21,000 a year—more than $2,000 below the official poverty level for a family of four._____
Since K-12 teachers are overwhelmingly female, of course the attack on them is sexist.
But it's also elitist, too, as feminists were all too quick to denigrate traditional "women's" jobs. Never mind they wouldn't have had their elite positions if it weren't for those lowly teachers.
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