If you thought the racist SB 1070 made Jan Brewer's Arizona a cruel, hateful place, you were right. But it's even worse:
Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.
Effective at the beginning of October, Arizona stopped financing certain transplant operations under the state’s version of Medicaid. Many doctors say the decision amounts to a death sentence for some low-income patients, who have little chance of survival without transplants and lack the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to pay for them.
Alan Grayson was right. For some Arizonans, not being affluent now will be a death sentence.
And Brewer remains not only inhumane, but a model of mendacity:
The Republican governor has in turn blamed “Obamacare,” meaning the federal health care overhaul, for the transplant cuts even though the Arizona vote came in March, before President Obama signed that bill into law.
Her policy will kill people, and she's falsely blaming it on the president. What a paragon of Republican values she is.