R denies Medicaid to poorest in south

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The truly ignorant believe Gov't will provide for them.

When the Dollar implodes no one will get MediCare.

We the people should expect our government to protect the poor.hungry and weak of our society.

We should expect our government to protect the individual freedom and liberty of every American regardless of their stature. If you want to protect the poor, hungry, and weak, go donate your own money and time to charity instead of expecting everyone else to pay for your cause.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Medicaid Expansion To Poorest Southerners Denied By Republicans

If you're poor and you live in the South, there's a good chance health care reform won't reach you. Intransigent Republican governors from Florida to Texas remain steadfastly resistant to President Barack Obama's plan to expand Medicaid to their neediest constituents.

The health care reform law Obama enacted in 2010 depends heavily on Medicaid, a joint federal-state health benefits program, to reach the goal of near-universal health care. If every state participated, 17 million uninsured people would gain coverage through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program between 2014 and 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The law extends Medicaid to anyone who earns up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, which is $14,856 this year.

These are the same people who voted so heavily for pubs.

Once again, the ignorant and poorly educated rw voting against their own best interest.

The Medicaid Expansion provisions aren't aimed at the poorest, they already have Medicaid.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

If the states refuse to make a plan for how their health care will meld with the new HC laws, then FEDs will do it for them

The people in those states WILL get HC, anyway.

Actually, they won't. The geniuses behind Obamacare forgot to provision for money for the federal version of Obamacare. There is no premium support for the federal exchanges at all. On top of that, quite a few wonks want to scale back the most expensive part of Obamacare, the premium support program that goes up to 400% of the federal poverty level.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Complete lie.

The NEEDIEST constituents in the south already HAVE medicaid.

They are resisting expanding it to everyone else. Which will CREATE more of the poorest class.

Beat me to it.

 

[Oddball]

Wait a minute...

I though the liberoidals were all sick and tired of backward-assed, barefooted, mooshine swilling, Dixie trailer trash hicks leeching off their beloved socialistic welfare state.

 

[Stephanie]

Wait a minute...

I though the liberoidals were all sick and tired of backward-assed, barefooted, mooshine swilling, Dixie trailer trash hicks leeching off their beloved socialistic welfare state.

naa, they like them when they can USE THEM for some agenda like this one from the Hufferpost