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Cattledog

(5,897 posts)
Wed May 3, 2017, 05:05 PM May 2017

Top 10 States for Pre-Existing Conditions All Went for Trump

https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2017/05/03/pre-existing-medical-conditions-more-common-in-trump-states/


Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation gives a broad sense of which states have the most at stake in the debate over whether the House GOP bill leaves people with medical conditions protected or disadvantaged.

The foundation used government data to estimate the number of adults who would have been unable to buy individual market insurance before the ACA – people with severe pre-existing conditions. It suggests states with the largest shares of people with pre-existing conditions—at least before the Affordable Care Act took effect—tend to be conservative states that Mr. Trump carried last November.





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Top 10 States for Pre-Existing Conditions All Went for Trump (Original Post) Cattledog May 2017 OP
A lot of those folks are in rural areas of these states greymattermom May 2017 #1
Which states? cannabis_flower May 2017 #2

greymattermom

(5,751 posts)
1. A lot of those folks are in rural areas of these states
Wed May 3, 2017, 05:28 PM
May 2017

where hospitals are closing. More hospitals will close and the death rate will go up in those states. I'm betting that those states are also losing population relative to other states. In 2020, there will be fewer representatives from those states.

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