Stingy far-far-far-far to the right politicians have caused another rural hospital to shut down

By SJ Otto

Another small-town Kansas Hospital is closing down. And this is not a good time to lose a hospital. According to The Wichita Eagle:

“With a growing threat looming from the global coronavirus pandemic, another Kansas small-town hospital has shut down.

“Now’s not the time for anyone to be losing a hospital,” said Wellington City Manager Shane Shields.”

The fist thing I can say is “well duh!” Why would anyone living in these isolated Kansas towns want to be deprived of a badly needed medical facility? But this is not some un-avoidable mistake. For 8 years Kansas kept electing and re-electing far-far-far-far to the right politicians. They ran promising to halt any kind of government hand outs to poor people. These far-far-far-far to the right politicians kept their promises and cut program after program that was designed to help those in need. One thing they refuse to allow was an expansion of Medicaid. These politicians, in both the Kansas House and Senate, along with our idiot Governor Sam Brownback, fought against any expansion of Medicaid, even though the money was available from the Federal Government, through Obamacare (AKA Affordable Care Act) and would not cost the state hardly anything. To these people Obamacare was a dirty word. Anything the Democratic President did was opposed, no matter what it was.

Such rural areas tend to be the more conservative spots in Kansas. If it weren’t for such communities Brownback and his ilk would not have been re-elected and such hospitals may have not been closed.

This is like a person shooting him/her self in the foot, or cutting their nose off to spite their faces. It was mean-spiritedness and a stagnant ideology that allowed this kind of thing to happen.

Wellington City and the Sumner Community are now paying for their mistake. But did they learn from it? Probably not. The voters here in Kansas have been stubborn and usually don’t change things just because they don’t work. Repeating mistakes here in Kansas is just business as usual.

For a lot of these voters I have no sympathy. They are stingy, mean-spirited and just plain nasty towards their neighbors.

Maybe as some of them die off, these voters will learn not to take those who are less well off than them for granted.

Kansas needs to change and until it does, people will have to learn to do without the medical care they have come to rely on.

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