Hey, everybody, welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Great show for you tonight. My guest, brian. I jones, the author of a new biography on jim henson. Very excited to talk to him. Earlier this week we talked about how the official launch of obamacare was marred by web glitches anlong delays. But there was another major obstacle to obamacares implementation. Total dickishness. You see, obamacare for all its welldocumented issues and problems is still a wellintentioned attempt to get people who have not had Health Insurance in this country Health Insurance. Medicaid has traditionally covered people up to this income level. Obamacare was going to cover them ostensibly down to this income level. So it was going to be the gap there, about the size of an ipad ee cement instead of an ipad it is about 8 Million People living just above the poverty line so to provide Health Insurance for this nations, you know, center, the federal government was going give the State Government mo
Launch of obamacare was marred by web glitches anlong delays. But there was another major obstacle to obamacares implementation. Total dickishness. You see, obamacare for all its welldocumented issues and problems is still a wellintentioned attempt to get people who have not had Health Insurance in this country Health Insurance. Medicaid has traditionally covered people up to this income level. Obamacare was going to cover them ostensibly down to this income level. So it was going to be the gap there, about the size of an ipad ee cement instead of an ipad it is about 8 Million People living just above the poverty line so to provide Health Insurance for this nations, you know, center, the federal government was going give the State Government money to expand their Medicaid Program. For three years the state would pay for this program, i think the number was about 0. And then after that, they would pay up to 10 , i think, by the time it was 2020. So what a great deal. But wouldnt you kno
But there was another major obstacle to obamacares implementation. Total dickishness. You see, obamacare for all its welldocumented issues and problems is still a wellintentioned attempt to get people who have not had Health Insurance in this country Health Insurance. Medicaid has traditionally covered people up to this income level. Obamacare was going to cover them ostensibly down to this income level. So it was going to be the gap there, about the size of an ipad ee cement instead of an ipad it is about 8 Million People living just above the poverty line so to provide Health Insurance for this nations, you know, center, the federal government was going give the State Government money to expand their Medicaid Program. For three years the state would pay for this program, i think the number was about 0. And then after that, they would pay up to 10 , i think, by the time it was 2020. So what a great deal. But wouldnt you know it. 26 states declined to go to that expense. 26 states. Hol
Center, the federal government was going give the State Government money to expand their Medicaid Program. For three years the state would pay for this program, i think the number was about 0. And then after that, they would pay up to 10 , i think, by the time it was 2020. So what a great deal. But wouldnt you know it. 26 states declined to go to that expense. 26 states. Holy thats like a third of laughter a little more 26 states it must be a pretty eclectic group with many Different Reasons to explain why they would turn down federal money to Bring Health Care to their working poor or may be it was just one reason. All of those states have republican governors or legislatures that are controlled by republicans. Oh. Which makes it really hard not to see this is just the latest example of that hit game show sweeping part of the nation, what dow hate more, poverty or obama . What, spite, spite, the emotion that makes you turn down millions of dollars that would go towards health care for
So what a great deal. But wouldnt you know it. 26 states declined to go to that expense. 26 states. Holy thats like a third of laughter a little more 26 states it must be a pretty eclectic group with many Different Reasons to explain why they would turn down federal money to Bring Health Care to their working poor or may be it was just one reason. All of those states have republican governors or legislatures that are controlled by republicans. Oh. Which makes it really hard not to see this is just the latest example of that hit game show sweeping part of the nation, what dow hate more, poverty or obama . What, spite, spite, the emotion that makes you turn down millions of dollars that would go towards health care for the working poor because you hate the president. And arbies. Arbys. laughter technically its food. Now of course of course i imagine that the state when asked why they didnt accept the Medicaid Expansion dont probably list spite as the answer. So lets see what their reason