Letters: SC doesn’t need Medicaid expansion; we’d rather be sick and poor

South Carolina doesn’t need a healthy workforce to compete with other states. We only need healthy workers during tourist season.

I want my federal taxes to go to people in states that have expanded Medicaid, such as Illinois and Taxachusetts. They may get healthier and richer, but we’re independent.

It should be a crime punishable by death or bankruptcy for the working poor to go without health insurance when they could have used the money they spent feeding their kids to buy insurance.

The last thing we need in this state is jobs, especially good-paying health-care jobs. Let them go to the states that expand Medicaid.

A study found up to 17,000 people will die annually in states where governors refused Medicaid expansion. Well, they’re gonna die anyway.

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

This story was originally published October 7, 2015 at 1:41 PM with the headline "Letters: SC doesn’t need Medicaid expansion; we’d rather be sick and poor."