millionaires > kids

There are bad votes, there are really bad votes, and then there’s… this.

In an Energy & Commerce Committee markup earlier this month, Raul Ruiz voted to kill the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The reason Democrats like Ruiz gave for voting no? To protect a federal subsidy for the top one percent of Medicare beneficiaries, those making more than $40,000 per month.

So – Ruiz chose taxpayer subsidies for millionaires over health insurance for kids? Classy. Good thing he’ll be held accountable for it in 2018.