They are poor, sick and voted for Trump. What will happen to them without Obamacare?

[jaysunb]

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 Keisha’s 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.

It’s 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]

1. They experience the same fate they condemned the rest of us to with their votes.

[bunnies]

2. Gee, that sucks. nt

[JI7]

3. what will happen to poor and sick that voted for Hillary ?

[world wide wally]

4. It looks like a lot of them will die

But at least they got a Repblican President and they can be buried with their gun.

[mcar]

5. A really good article

But I have no sympathy for them.

[lpbk2713]

6. Trump has stated Obama left him a big mess to clean up.

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]

7. What will they do after scarfing down that gigantic shit sandwich?

Ask for seconds.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Poor sick and voted for asshole.

I guess that means asshole will have fewer voters in 2020 if he makes it that far.

[dalton99a]

9. The Russian traitor doesn't give a rat's ass about them

[democratisphere]

10. I am afraid they will pay the ultimate price.......

[Hoyt]

11. The white wing Trump suppporters will continue to curse Obama while they die.