Steve M reports Kevin Drum reports a Georgia man complains the cheapest policy available to him costs $200 a month, a quarter of his income.
He blames Obama.
Not the Republican Supremes who blocked mandatory Medicaid expansion, the Republican governor who decided against it for his state, and the Republican Georgia legislature that supported him.
Though he would have been eligible for free Medicaid coverage under that expansion, he blames Obama for the fix he's in.
And it might very well not be because he doesn't know.
The moral convictions of ordinary Americans apparently make them easy recruits for the right on money issues.
Just as their moral and religious convictions, together, do on sexual issues.
And yet, the pews at church are full of believers like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, who want abortion and contraception safe and affordable, even for adolescents, and vote accordingly.
How many Democratic voters support spreading the wealth and, though they believe the moral condemnation implicit in the bumper sticker complaint, "socialism is fine until you run out of other people's money," are confident we are a long way from that, yet?
Or grateful?
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