idea alone. you need to fuse it with something that sort of draws like the intensity of a voting base out to vote for you. and that means you need to support simultaneously policies that animate that segment of the population. which is why, i think in paul ryan s budget, paul ryan is not a racist person, but it s no coincidence his budget doesn t propose to cut defense spending or medicare or social security. it proposes to cut food stamps, medicaid, subsidies cliven bundy was talking about make black people so much subsidies that bears mentioning cliven bundy benefited from himself. exactly. and so, what baffles me, and i want to come back to this because i think it suggests that conservatives and republicans have sort of bought into their own line of thinking about this, that really this is all just about sort of like libertarian high mindedness of small government.
jason carter and nunn instead of whoever the right winger is and the incoming governor. it s an important shift in how policy affects americans because for too long, you can speak to this better than i can, heather, we focused on the middle class. here s a great test for the narratives. people who have insurance have gotten kicked off of it, have to get new insurance tend to be wealthier, the people who are not qualifying for medicaid or hospitals are closing tend to be poor people. most disenfranchised in society. i think more and more americans are identifying, self-identifying as working class. you do feel that. people don t feel like the playing field is even. so this idea you re a hard working person and therefore you deserve something different, it s people are finding that actually the notion of poor is expanding to people who are
new hampshire is famous for scenic drives. but they re tough to enjoy when you re on your way to the doctor. because obamacare limits your choices, some will have to drive more on that hand hour to see a doctor. but new hampshire, you only have to flip on your television set to see the latest misinformation about the affordable care act from koch brother connected conservative group americans for prosperity. that ad does not mention the number of enrollees, people getting health care could approach 30,000 once the march numbers are tallied up, according to state officials, nor does that ad mention even more men and women in the state will get health care in the coming months, thanks to new hampshire s decision last week to expand medicaid. the ad fails to explain that the 90% premium hike flashed on
somewhere thank god we have obamacare, all of a sudden everything changes because you know somebody, it s not some ad put on by billionaires who don t give a damn, it s somebody you know. somebody you know that didn t get medicaid. there s a death rate that has been calculated by a group of researchers at harvard that estimates in places where governors have opted out of medicaid expansion 7,000 to 17,000 people will die. you know, there are competing narratives people kicked off plans. people will die because of the choices governors have made. people already dies. the 32-year-old woman who died in florida. i think one of the reasons deal is behind carter in georgia, by four points, georgia closed four rural hospitals because the governor of georgia would not accept medicaid. rural voters are conservative, you take somebody s hospital away interest them, that s what the republicans have done in georgia, you re going to get people thinking about voting for