tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post6897189263195560657..comments2024-03-10T13:59:19.230-04:00Comments on xpostfactoid: What comes after "catastrophic success"? Larry Jacobs on Democrats' healthcare choicesAndrew Sprunghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17601269968798865106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-14405986335819560932017-03-30T13:52:45.012-04:002017-03-30T13:52:45.012-04:00The opening sentence should read, "If Medicai...The opening sentence should read, "If Medicaid is the most sacred constituency,"Bob Hertzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889826739646491269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512362.post-33165945774208087152017-03-30T06:20:54.919-04:002017-03-30T06:20:54.919-04:00If the most sacred constituency for the Democrats,...If the most sacred constituency for the Democrats, as Jacobs says, I find that discouraging in the long run. Medicaid recipients do not vote regularly, and in the South they even vote Republican due to God/guns/gays posturing by the Right.<br /><br />Democrats need a way to stand for the working and middle class. As Hothschild's book made clear, the presence of Medicaid offering free health insurance to the poor just makes the working class mad.bob.hertzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09686373408419885558noreply@blogger.com