With regard to Medicaid in Missouri, we end 2014 where we began: no expansion, and no plans to do so. No matter the people left uninsured, the jobs left uncreated, and the jobs wiped out, the opponents of expansion refuse to budge. So continues our race to the bottom.
In fact, the entire Affordable Care Act is yet again in judicial jeopardy. Millions may lose coverage if the ACA is derailed, and there are no plans with which to replace it, but what the heck: it's just poor people, right?
To my mind, the current situation in the United States parallels climate change. In the same way that we've been able to pound the earth with our excesses and get away with it because of the planet's strong mechanisms for maintaining equilibrium, so too have our nation's strong institutions protected us against our political pettiness. But there will come a point where we overwhelm the earth's ability to overcome the harm we are causing, and we will reach the moment where our willingness to set aside the social contract and use our politics as a cudgel against the weak will wash away the levees created by the Founders to preserve the nation.
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