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Here's a great proposal to help those veterans in need of health care, including those who served under 24 months or are frustrated with waiting in line.
Expand Medicaid in all 50 states.
Oh. But we can't, because republican governors don't care about the poor.
The failure of some states to expand Medicaid is leaving a quarter-million veterans without health insurance.
258,600 VETERANS ARE LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE IN STATES REFUSING TO EXPAND MEDICAID.
Many assume that all of the nation's veterans are entitled to health care through the Veteran's Administration, but that's not the case; a veteran must have served for two continuous years or the full period for which they were called to active duty in order to be eligible. There are some exceptions like for individuals who were discharged for a disability sustained in the line of duty but about 1.3 million veterans remain uninsured nationwide.
According to a report by Pew using analysis from the Urban Institute, approximately 258,600 of those veterans are living below the poverty line in states refusing to expand Medicaid. Without veteran's benefits and with incomes too low to qualify for subsidies to use on the state exchanges these veterans are left without affordable coverage options.
Twenty states are staunchly refusing to expand the program, and a few are still debating the issue.
I guess they really don't care about our veterans.
So the solution to all of our problems is expand the shit out of another failing government run healthcare program that is over budget and will soon be broke.
Way to think outside the box.