when the "enlightened" states offered unemployment and welfare benefits exceeding those of the usual suspects. Like Castro dumping his problems back on our shores, it is always great when they can stimulate a mass migration of bottom line problems across their borders, an exodus that starts to get two way when high taxes make higher earners and businesses go the other way. It won them more money and power so far and imagining they can make that happen as a consolation prize for having "Obamacare" pass muster probably stokes their coal.



The difference is that Medicaid, health care, affects EVERY citizen of the state except the rich. The type of flight to other states would eventually make this threat seem foolish in the extreme were it to even survive political results in the here and now. That flight might also include providers and health companies.



Maybe all the faith healers would move in if there was any money left in those states.