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truedelphi

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19. Here is what you are ignoring - if he is indigent, and doesn't have
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 05:22 PM
Nov 2013

the $ 786 a month for the silver or gold insurance premium under the ACA, then he is screwed. Not because of ObamaCare, but because South Carolina's state officials refused to allow for MediCaid expansion to help the poorest of the poor.

Source for this statement:
http://azstarnet.com/ap/commentary/medicaid-obama-s-untold-health-care-success-story/article_446abc50-fc93-587d-9342-8bd2d482d5c1.htm

Note this paragraph:
Many of the states that have refused the Medicaid expansion are the poorest and most Republican, including Texas, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia — all of which have uninsured rates that are among the highest in the country.

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