Richard (RJ) Eskow was on Fox Business with Neil Cavuto recently. Since New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is positioning himself to run for president as a moderate Republican and since Fox Republicans can't have that, Cavuto invited Eskow on to bash Christie for him.

Christie criticized the president's health care bill, Cavuto began, yet he is accepting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in his state. Cavuto asked the former insurance company executive, Doesn't that make him look hypocritical? How Eskow responded was priceless.

Well, I guess the answer would be, I may think that my car insurance premiums are too high, but if I have an accident, I'm going to file a claim and take their money.

This caught Cavuto gaping. He interrupted Eskow and said, "You know, that's a very good point. That's putting me down brilliantly." But Eskow raises a broader point.

You may be among the millions of paycheck workers who have paid into Medicaid your entire life without ever claiming benefits because you never qualified. Until Obamacare. Unlike New Jersey, because Republican governors don't like the guy occupying the White House, most of their states have rejected the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, making the insurance on their exchanges more expensive for you, and leaving millions of people the law was designed to insure without access to health care. Because your Republican governor is just fine with you paying into Medicaid, so long as you never file a claim and get any of your own money back to pay your doctor bills. Your Republican governor believes this is for your own good.

(Cross-posted from Scrutiny Hooligans.)