We are doing nothing more than giving out gifts to corporate and insurance industries once again, while cheating our constituents out of the right to protections.
It seems to me, if we are looking to get our arms around the exploding cost of Medicaid, we would look at the people who are working first.
I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.
People have to realize there is a cost to the low prices at these big box stores like Wal-Mart. These chains get financial incentives to open stores and warehouses here, yet they feed their workers into Medicaid at taxpayers expense.
There appears to be a little bit of fuzzy math going on.
The population that we are trying to reach is not the population that is going to be appealed to by slick marketing efforts. This population relies on individuals within their own communities who can carry that message.
We should not be subsidizing businesses with your tax dollars, and then they turn around and give us Medicaid patients.
If they continue to erode these parks, we all lose out. These are our elderly. These are working families who work in our restaurants and hotels. They don't have money to live anywhere else in this county.
I think it is irresponsible leadership to keep stealing from that fund, and it's got to change. We are seeing such a shortage of affordable housing that we are losing our work force. We need every dime we can get.
It's a devastating situation what's happening to people who live in mobile home parks, not just here, but all over the state.
