Nation Warned That Trump's "Horrifying" Medicaid Pick Hired With "Express Purpose to Dismember" Prog

[workinclasszero]

Nation Warned That Trump's "Horrifying" Medicaid Pick Hired With "Express Purpose to Dismember" Program
Mary Mayhew "destroyed Medicaid in Maine now she will destroy it in the whole country."
byJessica Corbett, staff writer

Provoking immediate warnings about what is now in store for the most vulnerable people in the United States, President Donald Trump on Monday reportedly tapped Maine's former health commissioner Mary Mayhew—who was instrumental in Republican Gov. Paul LePage's efforts to block Medicaid expansion in the state—to run the program at the federal level.

Critics such as Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Maine, rapidly denounced her appointment as "horrifying."

People for Bernie co-founder Winnie Wong warned, "She's coming for Medicaid."

"This is horrible news," responded Maine-based Dr. Cathleen London. "She destroyed Medicaid in Maine now she will destroy it in the whole country."

Former Maine state Rep. Diane Russell, a Democrat, expressed her alarm in a series of tweets.

"Make no mistake, she was hired for her cruelty with the express purpose to dismember Medicaid," Russell charged, referencing a 2017 Portland Press Herald column that detailed the findings of a federal audit that showed gross failures while Mayhew was the state's top health official responsible for administrating MaineCare, the state's version of the program.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/15/nation-warned-trumps-horrifying-medicaid-pick-hired-express-purpose-dismember

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. So now people who can't work will have to stand on

street corners and beg?

[workinclasszero]

3. Dicken's capitalist nightmare is now official GOP policy

"Those who are badly off must go there." "Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

[HipChick]

2. Oh well..thoughts and prayers..

you get what you vote for...or don't vote for...

[still_one]

4. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[mahina]

5. How about the people that votes for Hillary? Is it fine that they

Lose their health care?

[flibbitygiblets]

6. I propose we call her "Mary Mayhem", aka "Typhoid Mary", and start showing people from Maine

who lost their healthcare because of her in television ads. THIS is the only way the idiots who vote against their own best interests are going to understand.