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17,000 People Will Die Uninsured in Red States Because GOP Leaders Refused Medicaid Expansion
Simone Sanner
February 6, 2014
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is co-author of the new study Opting Out Of Medicaid Expansion: the Health And Financial Impacts. The new study just released has found up to 17,000 people will die as a result of the refusal of red state governors to participate in expanded Medicaid programs.
There are 8 million people who will not receive coverage under the new law that are eligible for it. Of that 8 million, as many as 17,000 people will die having not gotten the medical care those in blue states have access to. Another 750,000 will suffer from untreated depression, diabetics will not have access to medication, and women will not have access to pap smears and mammograms.
Woolhandler attributes this to a political move on the part of red state governors, as the program is 100% completely funded by the federal government for the first three years. After those three years have passed, 90% of the costs will be funded by the federal government.
States making the investment in their people will see an approximate 50% reduction in the number of people without any health insurance whatsoever.
read more: http://aattp.org/17000-people-will-die-uninsured-in-red-states-because-gop-leaders-refused-medicaid-expansion/
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Every. Single. One. And it's an actual study, not just some idiot's opinion.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)These senators shouldn't be running from the ACA.
The should be running ON it!
17, 000 WILL DIE.
Fight for these people!
You have a winning campaign issue.
And MORALLY, it's the right thing to do.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)malaise
(268,931 posts)from bedsides in hospitals, homes, hospices and don't forget to show funerals and burials with bawling people.
Simple slogan - He/She didn't have to die but ReTHUGs rejected Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion.
Make them Pay!!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)This needs to be done NOW!
Time to fight back - make them pay.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 9, 2014, 05:39 AM - Edit history (1)
Whether it's "you didn't build that" or "CBO says Obamacare will cost 2 million jobs," Republicans jump on these lies/distortions in a nanosecond. They get those ads out lickety-split.
We should be so fast to jump on THE TRUTH with campaign ads and bumper stickers.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)a TV ad version of this --->
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)Republicans are against freedom! Use their line against them.
Magnificent
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)We need to get out in front of this, NOW!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)To be perfectly honest, they sort of look like they're dancing.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)so I guess that they're getting what they voted for.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...and assume that you were having a momentary lapse of good sense.
Otherwise, it might demonstrate that on some level you think that every single person in a blue state votes Democratic, and every single person in a red state votes Republican, and that our choices are entirely monolithic. Which would, of course, be the -height- of ignorance.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)TheMathieu
(456 posts)Way to go, Pukes.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024461613
nt
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 8, 2014, 04:52 PM - Edit history (1)
Those 17K will now drop from the food stamp/medicaid/welfare rolls.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)And yet how many will RETAIN their seats this November. And continue pushing policies that hurt those who voted for them.
It's disgusting.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)It causes them to try and find these strange feelings that they never use and most don't have.
gerogie2
(450 posts)are getting the kind of government they voted for.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)there are plenty of Democrats who didn't vote Republican, but unfortunately not enough in those states
What's sad is, all those Republicans voting against their OWN interests.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)for not having to put up with this crap in their health care.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt