From his OpEd yesterday. I don't agree with Hawley on much, and I recall his fist-lifting ways on January 6th, but he is one of the Republicans who gets that being the party of cutting Medicaid is a fast way to losing the working-class voters that are (for now, anyway) going to the GOP:
"As for Missouri, it is one of 40 Medicaid expansion states — because our voters wanted it that way. In 2020, the same year Mr. Trump carried the Missouri popular vote by a decisive margin, voters mandated that the state expand Medicaid coverage to working-class individuals unable to afford health care elsewhere. Voters went so far as to inscribe that expansion in our state Constitution. Now some 21 percent of Missourians benefit from Medicaid or CHIP, the companion insurance program for lower-income children. And many of our rural hospitals and health providers depend on the funding from these programs to keep their doors open.
"All of which means this: If Congress cuts funding for Medicaid benefits, Missouri workers and their children will lose their health care. And hospitals will close. It’s that simple. And that pattern will be replicated in states across the country...
"Republicans need to open their eyes: Our voters support social insurance programs. More than that, our voters depend on those programs. And there’s a reason for this that Republicans would do well to ponder. Our economy is increasingly unfriendly to working people and their families."
Hanna brings a much needed energy to the party. Dems have been flaccid for far too long; I hope she decides to run and shakes things up.
good luck hanna i hope you run!!!!!!!!!!!!
josh hawleyhow can you give him any weight at all?he was part of jan 6!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/josh-hawley-dont-cut-medicaid.html
From his OpEd yesterday. I don't agree with Hawley on much, and I recall his fist-lifting ways on January 6th, but he is one of the Republicans who gets that being the party of cutting Medicaid is a fast way to losing the working-class voters that are (for now, anyway) going to the GOP:
"As for Missouri, it is one of 40 Medicaid expansion states — because our voters wanted it that way. In 2020, the same year Mr. Trump carried the Missouri popular vote by a decisive margin, voters mandated that the state expand Medicaid coverage to working-class individuals unable to afford health care elsewhere. Voters went so far as to inscribe that expansion in our state Constitution. Now some 21 percent of Missourians benefit from Medicaid or CHIP, the companion insurance program for lower-income children. And many of our rural hospitals and health providers depend on the funding from these programs to keep their doors open.
"All of which means this: If Congress cuts funding for Medicaid benefits, Missouri workers and their children will lose their health care. And hospitals will close. It’s that simple. And that pattern will be replicated in states across the country...
"Republicans need to open their eyes: Our voters support social insurance programs. More than that, our voters depend on those programs. And there’s a reason for this that Republicans would do well to ponder. Our economy is increasingly unfriendly to working people and their families."