A first-term Republican Congressman answered a journalist's question about Medicaid expansion by answering that the poor “just don't want health care.” Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told STAT, a national health news publication, “There is a group of people that just don't want health care and aren't going to take care of themselves.”
The research doesn't support Marshall's claim that low-income people “morally, spiritually, socially,” don't want access to preventive medicine.
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