Despite mounting pleas from California and other states, the Trump administration isn't allowing states to use Medicaid more freely to respond to the coronavirus crisis by expanding medical services.
In previous emergencies, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the H1N1 flu outbreak, both Republican and Democratic administrations loosened Medicaid rules to empower states to meet surging needs.
But months into the current global disease outbreak, the White House and senior federal health officials haven’t taken the necessary steps to give states simple pathways to fully leverage the mammoth safety net program to prevent a wider epidemic.
That’s making it harder for states to quickly sign up poor patients for coverage so they can get necessary testing or treatment if they are exposed to coronavirus.
And it threatens to slow efforts by states to bring on new medical providers, set up emergency clinics or begin quarantining and caring for homeless Americans at high risk from the virus.

A liberal on this forum makes a snide remark or comment.

Republicans: act like a triggered snowflake and question how the liberal could be so hateful or stupid, and then get angry, call the liberal Unamerican, try to be cute and jokingly threaten the liberal to "come on down here".

A Republican makes a snide remark or comment.

Liberals: generally keep their cool, maybe say another dumb joke back, maybe ignores them.

Kind of telling, honestly. I'm not on either side exclusively, but sometimes you people make me pick a side, y know?