![]() ![]() There’s been a lot written about whether Great Society programs have succeeded. "There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today - the largest number in 54 years," Cox said. Despite Johnson’s goal of launching a "war against poverty," Cox said blight persists. ![]() He said the expansion was a broadening of ineffective Great Society programs, including Medicaid, that began under President Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s. ![]() House Majority Leader Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, recently objected to Democrats’ claims of a moral high ground in their bid to expand the state’s Medicaid rolls.ĭuring a floor speech, Cox laid out reasons for the House GOP’s refusal to make Medicaid available to as many 400,000 additional low income and disabled Virginians - despite the federal government’s offer to pay almost all the costs. ![]()
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