Three major research institutions
Urban Institute
Gallup and Commonwealth Fund
all have one
inconvenient-for-Obama conclusion
which is that
the number of Americans lacking healthcare
has plummeted this year
from about 17 percent
to 13 percent uninsured.
Among the 8 million
new beneficiaries
to the luxury of not having
to visit the emergency room
for the sniffles
were people
with low and moderate incomes
many of whom
were eligible for government subsidies
and Latinos.
But the states that went
the intriguingly bold route
of denying Obama's
totally free Medicaid expansion
(you know
because it's a government handout
and to accept
would make the higher-ups culpable
of socialism
and you don't
want that blood on your hands)
and saving
the too-poor from themselves
know that in reality
there's nothing more certain
than death and taxes
especially for our President
who is smuggling dissidents
and making them
pay 1 percent of their household income
then 2 percent
then 2.5 percent
until they finally
pay with their lives
by relenting to pay less
(to a socialist)
to keep themselves
alive and well.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
