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In reply to the discussion: Update on governors accepting or refusing the expanding of ACA (Obamacare): [View all]Glitterati
(3,182 posts)But I doubt people with family in one of these red states are going to up and move away from family and a support system.
I, too, live in Georgia and dealt with the "you qualify for medicaid except your don't because your governor didn't accept the medicaid expansion" with my 18 yr. old daughter. Since she's in college and works part time, she qualified for medicaid - technically, anyway.
But, we just went on healthcare.gov and estimated her 2014 income to equal her 2013 income which we know will not happen, but she's wasn't going uninsured another year because of Nathan Deal.
I think what is much more likely to happen, instead of people uprooting to get ACA, is that they are going to replace the governors, like Nathan Deal, with folks like Jason Carter.
Sadly, thanks to the Georgia legislature, they saw this coming and changed the law so that we will have to replace the majority of the state legislature to get expanded Medicaid.