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In reply to the discussion: What is ObamaCare? High-Cost Privatized Medicine That Provides Huge Profits To Insurance Industry [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)organizations are simply shutting down under the weight of trying to help 18 to 24% of all Americans with health care needs.
Also, people who own their homes, and are in their late fifties and sixties are very reluctant to have anything to do with MediCaid. Many states have provisions that your "estate" must pay back the monies the state lets you use, should you obtain Food Stamps or MediCaid.
Here in California, I have watched neighbor after neighbor give up on eating, and on medical care, due to what is going on in this country right now.
It didn't have to be this way. If the Obama Administration cared a bit more about the real people in this country rather than spending over 255 billions of dollars on things like modernizing the military, on offering weapons systems to the UAE and Israel, et al, we would have a vibrant nation. (These billions were counted up between August of 2010 and November of 2011. So there is a lot more money spent on war and military than just that!)
As it is, the Administration's DOJ and IRS and DEA have just knocked the medical marijuana industry on its butt. Why? Here in Calfiornia, we were dependent on the monies raised from taxing the medical marijuana industry. These monies - some 125 millions of dolalrs a year - have helped keep our schools open, and our prisons are less of a burden as well.The only thing i can think of is that Obama wants the Big Pharma campaign contributions too badly