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States Policies on Health Care Exclude Some of the Poorest http://nyti.ms/16fCbtR Republicans are pure evil. Just horrible horrible people.
____ Starting next month, the administration and its allies will conduct a nationwide campaign encouraging Americans to take advantage of new high-quality affordable insurance options. But those options will be unavailable to some of the neediest people in states like Texas, Florida, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, which are refusing to expand Medicaid.
More than half of all people without health insurance live in states that are not planning to expand Medicaid.
People in those states who have incomes from the poverty level up to four times that amount ($11,490 to $45,960 a year for an individual) can get federal tax credits to subsidize the purchase of private health insurance. But many people below the poverty line will be unable to get tax credits, Medicaid or other help with health insurance.
Sandy Praeger, the insurance commissioner of Kansas, said she would help consumers understand their options. She said, however, that many of the poorest of the poor would fall into a gap in which no assistance is available.
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woodsprite
(11,853 posts)Instead of the 1%'ers, but unfortunately the asshats in
control of those states will spin it so it sounds like its the dems
fault they couldn't make it better for their constituents.
And some people, those lacking two brain cells to rub together,
will actually believe them -- no matter what audio exists of
their pols throwing them under the bus.
grilled onions
(1,957 posts)They know what buzz words to hit those voters with. Words like gays,abortion,birth control they listen to and hear that they must vote to fight Satan's ways. What they don't hear is what hurts them. We need to get them to have more then selective hearing.
Initech
(99,909 posts)The really scary part? They don't give a rat's ass about helping the poor or things that Jesus actually said and did. They only care about stopping gay marriage (while study after study shows they have the highest divorce rates), being "pro life" (while cheering on wars and executions and end times conspiracy theories), and hating immigrants (while saying "Jesus loves you). Jesus would have hated these hypocritical douchebags.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)because it legitimizes ignorance and magical thinking. Then many other people suffer because of the staying power of these ancient mythologies.
Skittles
(152,963 posts)Grins
(7,128 posts)...if they have the brains to use it.
Do an ad campaign and mention what is in place RIGHT NOW, how it might get them covered or save them $$ - and how to apply. Then add that usual disclaimer at the end..."Not available in <list the states> because they opted for their own program".
Then watch the fur fly. More fun than a room full of nuns with Tourette's syndrome. (A line I completely heisted from James McParlane's Blog.)
Me? I'd hire the Rude Pundit to create this ad!
woodsprite
(11,853 posts)But would anyone have the guts to do it - that's the question.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)bigtree
(85,915 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)That the RW cares nothing about prole suffering and just wants "useless" people to die off is nothing new.
bigtree
(85,915 posts). . . for sure.
kairos12
(12,817 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)It will be bad for those who make too much for Medicare but not enough for the exchanges.
I wonder if it would be possible to lower the income level on the exchanges... if it could be done by directive or is it written in the law itself.
bigtree
(85,915 posts). . . problem is, it looks like several states are spending their time countering the ACA and almost no time addressing any of the health care needs of the poor.
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)living the fuck-the-future life & voting that way too
bigtree
(85,915 posts). . . all coming out of a republican culture of deliberate disinformation designed to attract their new breed of rabid faithful to the polls. it's really all they have left to cover their obvious corporate protection schemes and their total fealty to those wealthy interests. They exist to protect, defend, and enhance their lucrative government enterprises. Their corporate-defending litany of attacks and appeals is adopted word-for-word by their faithful and, almost laughably, has morphed into their party's primary doctrine. Lambs to the slaughter, really, in many of these poorer states.
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sibelian
(7,804 posts)They only feel good when someone else feels bad.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)bigtree
(85,915 posts)Not one.
'Stupid' is believing that there is one.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)to rally us into our Red and Blue Teams and ensure that we will never unite to oppose anything they do to us. They want it to be more repulsive to us to stand with a Repblican on *anything,* than to stand for what is right and against what is clearly wrong. This utter dehumanization of half of the electorate is absolutely necessary to them. We cannot be permitted to know that Republicans are also victims of their policies and also human, because we might find our common ground and rise up against what the corporatists are doing to ALL of us.
We are urged to act as apologists for drone murders, indefinite detention, austerity budgets, making the Bush tax cuts permanent, cutting Social Security, corporatizing our schools, and passing the Trans-Pacific Job and Wage Killing Agreement....all because of garbage propaganda like this, that elevates partisanship over principle and recognition of our common humanity.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Heard this somewhere recently.
1. The very rich elite Republicans who finance it for selfish tax and business reasons
2. The social conservatives like the evangelical Christians
3. The guys who read Tom Clancy novels.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)three things I call republicans , it's not clever but they piss me off so much who cares ?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)and admitted your problem.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Others are just dumb as a box of rocks and/or religious fanatics. Some republicans used to be fairly reasonable, some like Nelson Rockefeller were left of a ton of democrats.
In the end the biggest problem is the ruling class, the Kochs and Wall Street ruling class types.
There was a great pertinent discussion about the right today, on "Up With Steve Kornacki" about their hatred of the left, as in the hate for Obama is maybe magnified because he's black (really half black) but it's not like the right didn't go big time after Clinton, go after LBJ, go after JFK, and go after FDR.
I remember one of my college history professors talking about the pure hatred her dad still had for FDR. Many have seen the "Wanted For Treason" posters of JFK on numerous telephone posts in Dallas when Kennedy made his ill fated trip there. Most of us are old enough to remember the pure hatred for Bill Clinton.
The right thinks any democrat in the White House is a threat to their rule and their sense of what should be, a threat to veer left and maybe start doing something about income inequality, to go all commie in their warped minds.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)I can fathom no other reason to allow the poorest to simply die other than this. And those who vote for these motherfuckers have blood on their hands.