Last updated on 2014.04.17
Blog pal Joe Loveland from Minnesota fires a shot across the border at Governor Dennis Daugaard's refusal to provide health coverage to 48,000 low-income South Dakotans through the PPACA Medicaid expansion. In full satire mode, Loveland reports that wealthy philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has a solution:
Sanford stepped into the fray today, announcing that he is creating a new Medicaid-like health plan, which he is calling SanfordCare™. Any South Dakota citizen who would have been eligible for the Obamacare expansion would be eligible for the free SanfordCare™ coverage, provided they agree to legally change their surnames to Sanford™. Any children born while under the health coverage would also have to adopt the first name Denny™ or Denita™ [Joe Loveland, "Billionaire Purchases Naming Rights to Uninsured South Dakotans," Wry Wing Politics, 2014.04.17].
Let's hope we can find real solutions that treat our fellow citizens as human beings and not as profit points.
That's what I get for not reading the entire post from the beginning. I started here: "Sanford stepped into the fray today, announcing that he is creating a new Medicaid-like health plan, which he is calling SanfordCare™. Any South Dakota citizen who would have been eligible for the Obamacare expansion would be eligible for the free SanfordCare™ coverage,"
Imagine how my heart leaped when I read that much, and then how much it sank when I finished reading the quote and the blog post from the beginning.
Wouldn't that kick some politicians in the teeth, if it actually happened?
Really, it ought to be everyone's middle name is "Denny" rather than first...
;-)
Wry Wing is a good blog and fun to read. Joe is a smart guy.
Sanford & Son ?