| While the nation debates the negative impact of Paul Ryan's Medicare destroying cuts for seniors, the plan quietly attacks aid for infants and children as well. Last year, Medicaid paid for 2,800 births in John Kline's Congressional District. The plan will cut aid for 3,300 births in pseudo pro-life Michelle Bachmann's district. These are the nameless, voiceless, and voteless cuts in the Republican plan to dismantle both Medicare and Medicaid.
According to the CIA World Factbook, 45 nations have a lower infant mortality rate than the United States. Now, the Republicans want to cut eligibility for possibly 2,800 Medicaid births in Kline's district alone? How can you be pro-life and simultaneously for a plan that will make our infant mortality even worse than it is? How can you demand that a mother has the obligation to give birth, while denying the child the right to a healthy birth? These our not rhetorical questions for our conservative friends out there. It would seem universal access to birth would be a priority, but Ryan, Kline, and the Republicans want even less access.
The effects on our Seniors of the Republican plan to eliminate Medicare are pretty obvious and disastrous. What is less well known are these other effects on the quality of life of all our citizens. Children will be less well cared for. Hospitals won't be compensated for emergency care. Kline's district alone will lose $900,000,000 over the next decade. Those loses will magnify and ripple throughout the state. Jobs, life, responsibility. Those are the peacock feathers Kline likes to strut. Too bad they are all for show.
Ryan
Plan, Medicare cutting representative
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Children
cut by these pro-life Republicans. (These kids just need to get jobs
with benefits?)
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Infants
whose births are subsidized by medicare
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John
Kline (MN-2)
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31,000
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2,800
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Erik
Paulsen (MN-3)
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32,000
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2,900
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Michele
Bachmann (MN-6)
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34,000
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3,300
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Chip
Cravaack (MN-8)
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57,000
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5,700
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Total
children Minnesota Republicans want to cut in their districts with their Medicare plan
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154,000
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14,700
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