First it was Mitt Romney supporting a HillaryCare‐​style health care reform in Massachusetts. Now Tommy Thompson, who as secretary of health and human services was responsible for the Medicare prescription drug debacle, is attacking Missouri governor Matt Blunt for cutting Medicaid spending. Thompson told the Associated Press that states should expand access to Medicaid because the federal government pays most of the cost.


Thompson apparently has not read Michael Cannon’s terrific paper, Medicaid’s Unseen Costs, that shows how increased Medicaid spending drives out private health insurance, increases dependency on government, and drives up costs.


With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?