North Carolina
Related: About this forum"Youthful Republican brain trust helps governor miss the boat on Medicaid expansion"
Love the little "brain trust" dig. Keep hammering...
The consequences of not implementing the Medicaid expansion quickly are catastrophic. We have one of the weakest state economies in the nation as measured by our persistently high unemployment rate. The Governor and General Assembly turned down an estimated 25,000 new jobs in the health care industry which were all but guaranteed by the medical expansion. These jobs run the gamut from nurses aides to doctors and they would have been located in all 100 counties.
The continued failure to expand Medicaid will rob our economy of billions of dollars in lost federal revenues while denying hundreds of thousands of low income workers health insurance coverage. These uninsured citizens are not welfare recipients. The rejected income guidelines would have provided coverage for wage earners making $15,400 per year for a single person and $31,800 for a family of four. These low-wage and part-time workers are now left mostly uninsured and ineligible for Medicaid. They number about 494,000.
All North Carolina taxpayers are being penalized by not expanding Medicaid. This is because federal tax funds earmarked for our state will now flow to other states which elected to comport with federal law. Gov. McCrory chose to join the nationwide GOP rebellion and to reject expanded Medicaid for mostly ideological reasons.
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William C. Crawford is a social worker, photographer, and writer living in Winston Salem. He has forty years of experience in Medicaid and health care. He formerly taught public policy at the UNC School of Social Work.
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20130914/OPINION07/309140002/Youthful-Republican-brain-trust-helps-governor-miss-boat-Medicaid-expansion?nclick_check=1
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)I'm not one prone to depression, but living in this Republican-controlled state might get me there...
ncrainbowgrrl
(18,968 posts)where you see McCrookie's polls falling faster than a freefall ride at the fair.
where you see people from every part of society come together and hold hands in a loving way, and you can feel the power of the crowd pulsing through you.
When you've met so many amazing people both online and in person that you'd go so far out of your way for, to put up in their need, to support through the emotional days, and to engage more people in the movement.
Join me. Feel the power of Moral Monday. Feel the communities coming together to create change.
You might say I'm a dreamer... But let's dream together.
How about next week in Yadkinville?
Flo Mingo
(492 posts)Cause the kicks just keep on comin'
tanyev
(42,552 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)went right over most Republicans' pretty little heads.
ncrainbowgrrl
(18,968 posts)LOL