Cutting Unaffordable State Medicaid Programs doesn't make Health Care Affordable for Americans Losing Coverage.

The news media continues to forget that if government can't afford health coverage for Americans, how the hell do politicians and partisan Republicans think American can afford it on their own? Dropping people off Medicaid forces sick people to become sicker, causing unimaginable pain, and eventually shifts the cost onto doctors and hospital emergency rooms.

Also missed by the media and conservative state governors and legislatures is the temporary nature of this economic downturn, not to mention the fact that the Great Recession dropped almost 6 million people from employee coverage. While we're in the state of economic recovery, pulling health care from American families seems inhumane and shortsighted. Ron Brownstein makes this point below.