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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

There are some great religious charities out there, including hospitals run by religious groups, and I have no doubt that conservatives could, if they wanted to, build some great charitable hospitals providing free or subsidized care on top of government assistance as an alternative in the red states.

But the ones that exist now (with the possible exception of St. Jude's in Memphis) depend very heavily on government and insurer payments for healthcare and I expect would love to see Medicaid broadened. I know one person on the board who could tell us for sure what would help her red state health care system.

Oddly, more of the big charitable healthcare institutions in the country though are in blue states, like Mass, NY, Michigan, and California, and the Red States rely more on for-profit healthcare that more broadly discriminates against the poor.

So, I don't think conservatives as a whole have chosen to care.

No disagreement. There are surely great religious and non-religious charities out there. But the idea that the poor in this country will be taken care of more efficiently and on anywhere near the current scale if government eliminated all programs providing assistance and handed that money back to us, is so fucking patently and overwhelmingly preposterous that the only type of person who would make this argument would probably also fuck Ted Cruz willingly.

TM