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Bad news for Republicans: Obamacare is helping their voters too
Bad news for Republicans: Obamacare is helping their voters too
by Hunter
This is what the Republican Party did not want to happen:
Any non-wealthy American who has had any experience with the American healthcare system, i.e. any of them who have ever gotten sick or hurt, knows just how badly it was (and is) broken. The Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, but it is helping people, and it is helping them whether they are Democrats or Republicans or neither, and repealing it now would mean hurting all of those people all over again.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/14/1277651/-Bad-news-for-Republicans-Obamacare-is-helping-their-voters-too
by Hunter
This is what the Republican Party did not want to happen:
(N)ot all Republicans agree; one is Irene Jacusis of New Port Richey, who was uninsured until now. “I did not vote for Obama," she said. "But I am so in love with this plan, with this health care plan, what can I do?"
She knows that her party wants to repeal it. "But I don’t think they’re going to," she said. "There are too many people out there who need this and require it.” She says her husband Ronald died last year from a rare sarcoma because he waited too long to see a doctor after he felt a lump. <...>
Another Republican who wants to keep the Affordable Care Act is Mary Fallon of St. Petersburg. She was a teacher for many years, but because she was paid from grant funds she didn’t qualify for health insurance. She had to buy her own policy, but then she got sick. Hello, pre-existing condition.
Any non-wealthy American who has had any experience with the American healthcare system, i.e. any of them who have ever gotten sick or hurt, knows just how badly it was (and is) broken. The Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, but it is helping people, and it is helping them whether they are Democrats or Republicans or neither, and repealing it now would mean hurting all of those people all over again.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/14/1277651/-Bad-news-for-Republicans-Obamacare-is-helping-their-voters-too
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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/
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/
Love the gorilla.
to be our party's Reagan, in the sense that he is peeling off support from the other side each passing day. This truly is the GOP's nightmare scenario.
