Somewhere, People Have Health Care; Blunt Staffers Moving On to Liberate Them From It?

We learned last week that Jodi Stefanick --former legislator and architect of the 2005 Matt Blunt Medicaid cuts which led to the governor's still-wrecked popularity-- was abandoning ship and leaving the administration.  According to the Political Fix...

Stefanick plans to move to Boston to be closer to her family. The move has been planned since last summer, said Nanci Gonder, a spokeswoman for Gov. Matt Blunt.

It is probably no accident that Stefanick chose Massachusetts as her new home.  It was that state, after all, that passed a new law in 2006 that expanded health care coverage to an additional 300,000 residents.  Given that, Stefanick no doubt believes that the Bay State is a place where she can put her ample skill at cutting people off health insurance to productive use.

Then yesterday we learned that MOGOP spokesman Paul Sloca, who has spent much of the last four years reminding people how great the Blunt-Stefanick Medicaid cuts were, has also left Team Blunt.  Despite Sloca's non-specific claim that he "plans to be around", one can't help but wonder whether the siren song of cutting more people off health care will lead the Canadian Sloca to return north with Stefanick to help undo health care reform in New England.