Michael Hiltzik: Nikki Haley is as bad on abortion and health as any other Republican
Nikki Haley blocked the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act while she was governor of South Carolina. Her policies on abortion rights are execrable. Her home state has one of the nation's worse records in the nation on maternal health — indeed, on health generally.
Since Haley says she's staying in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, despite coming in second to Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary, there's no time like the present to examine her positions on the all-important issue of health care.
A thousand political takes have bloomed in newspapers and on the airwaves since Haley expressed her determination to keep running. Too many of them deal with whether she really has a chance to beat Trump and what Trump says or thinks about her or what she thinks of Trump.
It's much more important to contemplate what a Haley presidency would mean, especially among low-income Americans and women of childbearing age. The general answer is that it's ugly.
