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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey are poor, sick and voted for Trump. What will happen to them without Obamacare?
Another morning, another list of patients and problems in the hands of 35-year-old Keisha Saunders. Diabetes, depression, heart disease. Robert needs lower blood pressure. Buffy needs prescriptions filled. Mary needs to lose 50 pounds, so she can get what she really needs, a new hip.
Again, the list extends to the bottom of Keishas notepad, as it has so many days since the Affordable Care Act mandated that everyone have health insurance. Unlike in Washington, where health care is a contentious policy debate, health care where Keisha is a nurse practitioner is a daily need to be filled. The high rates of chronic diseases in McDowell County have made it the county with the shortest life expectancy in the nation.
Its also a place that voted overwhelmingly for President Trump, whose promise to repeal the ACA will soon affect nearly every patient Keisha treats at the Tug River health clinic in Northfork, including the one waiting for her in exam room
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/west-virginia-tug-river-obamacare/?tid=ss_fb
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,928 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)JI7
(89,241 posts)world wide wally
(21,739 posts)But at least they got a Repblican President and they can be buried with their gun.
mcar
(42,278 posts)But I have no sympathy for them.
lpbk2713
(42,742 posts)Even though it was rethug obstructionism that caused it. He will continue to do
nothing but make himself and his friends (in that order) fabulously wealthy.
I hate to think how much damage he will do in four years.
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Ask for seconds.
Lucky Luciano
(11,248 posts)I guess that means asshole will have fewer voters in 2020 if he makes it that far.