Question for legislators: Do we stop helping folks afford medicine? Or do we start asking the rich to pay their fair share?

We've been hearing lots of ripple effects from the latest round of budget cuts.  Pay cuts to state workers, tuition increases, and foster kids getting shuffled around from programs that have worked to a program that may or may not.  One of the most chilling impacts was written about in a Courier-Journal article a couple of days ago.

The article describes a House-Senate tax force that's been formed to examine how to deal with the enormous--at least $700 million--budget gap in state funding for Medicaid, which helps 800,000 (and this number has grown consistently as more people have been impacted by the recession) Kentuckians access health care who can't afford it.

At the meeting of the task force, lawmakers entertained the idea of cutting Medicaid's coverage of prescriptions. 

Take minute and imagine a Kentucky with 800,000 people who have no access to needed medication. 

Isn't it time we simply ask the rich to pay their fair share?