Gross. I step away for a few days and this thread has grown to 4 pages of KK bitching about one thing or another. I haven't even bothered to reread all the whining but I did enjoy the "clutching pearls" line - coming from the guy who is utterly fixated on Marshall using two wrong words off the cuff before getting to the right one.
Obamacare was touted as bringing down the cost of healthcare by making preventative care much more accessible, averting more serious care. Sounds great in theory - but it hasn't worked because poor people and stupid people (often the same group) don't adequately avail themselves of the preventative care even when it's "free." That's the point Marshall was making. It's a good point, so naturally KK would rather fixate on two words.
This is a dumb thread. By all means continue your rant.
1) Marshall made a much better point later on in his "clarification" statement that he accepted Medicaid and that people traveled hundreds of miles to go to him to get care. It is very relevant point, that Obamacare was designed to improve Medicaid through an expansion. THE EXACT MEDICAID EXPANSION BLOCKED by Brownback and many other Republican governors. This action did make it much more difficult for poor people to access precisely the kind of preventative care that they are no being subsequently blamed for not accessing that health care and called "stupid." So blaming both poor people and Obamacare as voted on and designed by Congress seems pretty disingenuous.
2) You continue to assert that Marshall misspoke in some way. He issued a clarification and didn't mention the issue you are speaking of, so he didn't feel the need to correct any record. The burden of proof that he didn't mean what he clearly said seems like it would be on you to provide. It seems you acknowledge that taken at face value, it is an awful quote, which is precisely what I said to begin this thread.
3) You'd be more honest if you just stopped with the pre-tense that you have any real concern for the poor.
