Hurricane Katrina, The Obamacare Rollout, And Allowing Privilege To Shape Our Politics

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9. Yes, the SCOTUS threw out the penalty against states choosing not to expand

i.e., the decision said that the fed government could not withdraw ALL of the medicaid funding if the state refused to expand, and so most of the rethug-controlled states left things "as is", devoid of care for the rest of their needy.... not realizing that the money that the working poor might save having to deal with expensive health care could be pumped back into their economies.

And many of these states, notably in the south, are 20 - 30% minority. Yet they have exposed their populations to generational traumatization, as well as virulent but effective propaganda, where the traumatized give up on voting as a hope to make change (or they are denied the right) and the propagandized are convinced that they are not the ones in need or or are receiving the aid that they rail against.