Did your outrage prevent you from reading further?
State statistics show that most enrollees are about 40 percent below the poverty level and tend to be jobless and often homeless and have a high prevalence of mental illness and drug or alcohol abuse.
Miss that part?
Miss the part about how this system is completely different from the previous one?
The comments by Pinney were slightly ridiculous, but no less so than "And anybody in the goddam country can afford six bucks a month."