Gutting Medicaid to Balance the Budget

From Politico:

House Republicans are planning to cut roughly $1 trillion over 10 years  from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and  disabled, as part of their fiscal 2012 budget, which they will unveil  early next month, according to several GOP sources.

A trillion bucks over the next 10 years is quite a bit, but it won't work, and will actually end up being more expensive than what is now in place.

1) The poor will simply get treated at emergency rooms instead of seeing their doctor.

2) The poor will wait until their conditions deteriorate before seeking treatment, which will then become much more expensive than it otherwise would.

3) With no more preventive medicine for the poor, they will be going to emergency rooms in droves, when they develop serious conditions that could have been prevented by treatment in a clinic.

In my opinion, this is a dumb move.  Even if you view poor people as leeches on society, gutting Medicaid is going to result in bigger expenditures in the long run.  Now there is ONE way to reduce the expenses that poor people cost the rest of us.  Just set an earnings limit of, say, 10,000 bucks a year, and everybody under that income gets taken to a field where they are all shot and then dumped into a mass grave.  You know, that would work for the disabled too.  I know, I know, this sounds cold as hell, but since we are talking about reducing the budget so that banksters can feel comfortable with all those bailout bonuses we are giving them, we are going to have to balance the budget someplace.  Since we are choosing to balance it on the backs of the poor and disabled,  let's just kill them all so they will no longer be a problem.  We can then, in church, raise our hands to the Lord, in front of the entire world, and let Jesus know that we did care enough about the poor to do something about them.  Hallelujah!