Angrycat has previously celebrated PA Guv Corbett's attempts to squish poor children and sick people into a meat slurry in order to power the next generation of natural gas frackers. It turns out that the Corbett administration has been using the unholy power of bureaucracy to further his cause against the idea that poor people utilize something other than the ER for health care.
Earlier this year, Corbett eliminated general assistance, a state cash program for those who don't qualify for other kinds of benefits (for example, the disabled who are waiting on their applications to Social Security for SSI or SSD).
The clever part is that Corbett didn't eliminate the medical assistance portion of that program. However, it seems that many of those in the program no longer, for some reason, received medical benefits after their other assistance was discontinued. But it's not his fault, guys! Really. Requiring people dying of cancer to work 100 hours a month in order to receive benefits, hey, not related. Although accepting money from the feds for a Medicaid expansion would cover the medical costs of all these people but no 'cause SOCIALISM.
Angrycat sez: I could eat a sick person. A properly sick person, though. Actually, no, only a fresh trauma victim is something I could eat, dying-human wise. Eating a sick person would be sort of gross. I don't like being around sick people at all, to be honest.
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