Miller wants to discontinue Arkansas's private option Medicaid plan, and kick 100,000 people off of it now, because:



He said some who qualify for the private option aren't working hard enough. He claims many want health insurance just so they can get prescription drugs to abuse. He draws distinctions with government help for catastrophic occurrences such as he suffered. He falls back, too, on a developing defense from private option holdouts that they prefer an alternative that wouldn't end coverage for the 100,000 people currently signed up, at least until next year. This is disingenuous. He and other opponents have made clear that they want to strip Obamacare from government root and branch. Here's how Miller boiled his opposition down: "My problem is two things," Miller said. "One, we are giving it to able-bodied folks who can work ... and two, how do we pay for it?"

Never mind that many of those "able-bodied folks"working, and working hard. They're often working at multiple low-paying jobs that don't offer any benefits at all and don't pay enough to afford private health insurance. Not that, ultimately, that would make any difference to Miller. He seemingly just doesn't really care about the lives of his constituents who are among the working poor.

Miller clearly feels he is deserving of the millions in government assistance he's received because he's not one of "those" people. And "those" people couldn't possibly as worthwhile to society as he is. Besides, his care is already paid for. He got his, why should he give a hand up to anyone else?