Letter | Of course South Carolina doesn’t need more good jobs and healthy residents

We don’t need no stinkin’ jobs and healthy people

A few thoughts on South Carolina’s decision to not expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act:

1) South Carolina doesn't need a healthy workforce to compete with other states; we only need healthy workers during tourist season.

2) I want my federal taxes going to people in states that have expanded Medicaid, like Taxachusetts. They may get healthier and richer, but we're independent!

3) It should be a crime punishable by death, or bankruptcy, for the working-poor to have no health insurance. They could have used the money they spent feeding their kids to pay for that insurance.

4) The last thing we need in this state is more jobs. Let those jobs go to states that expand Medicaid.

5) A study found up to 17,000 people will die annually because governors have refused the Medicaid Expansion. Well, they're gonna die anyway! I like that governors afford more due process to death row inmates than their working-poor constituents. It’s called tough love.

6) When our insurance and health bills increase because hospitals have to pass the loss of Medicaid revenue onto us, I'll gladly pay that bill - because I'm made of money.

This story was originally published September 1, 2015 at 8:33 AM with the headline "Letter | Of course South Carolina doesn’t need more good jobs and healthy residents."