What next? Poor houses? State soup lines to replace food stamps?
Nikki Haley rejected federal funds for poor folks .. “Medicaid” … but wants to bail out hospitals that will lose funding they would have gotten from Obamacare. She has increased payments to hospitals that serve the rural poor. The extra money likely placated hospital officials who might otherwise have pressured Republicans to adopt the Democratic plan.
This revisit t Charles Dickens is happening across the red south.