Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI

[LiberalLoner]

36. This is exactly what the book was taking about...

Go to the pill mill that was run by Dr. Procter in Portsmouth Ohio, get Medicaid to pay for the hundreds of OxyContin pills per month he would prescribe. Cost to the patient, only a three dollar copay. Get a hundred strong oxy pills per month, sell the pills for a thousand bucks. That doctor was regularly prescribing hundreds of oxycodone tablets per month along with hundreds of Xanaxes.

Purdue had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars not that long ago for felony misrepresentation of OxyContin. Said it wasn't addictive. Of course it was. But the amount of pills per year DEA allows them to manufacture keeps going up every year, even after the lawsuit against Purdue.

The establishment of a database in all the states now should help end pill mills, one would hope, but still....the manufacturer makes more and more pills every year.

I feel I got kind of beat up in this thread, and I wanted to make clear, I am not in favor of ending Medicaid and SSI. If anything I'd like to see these programs stronger and for SSI to go up to something a person could really live on. I'm disabled, myself, from Multiple Sclerosis, can't work. Not on SSI because my husband makes enough for us to live on, but if anything happened, I would have to apply for SSI.

I just wanted to share what I've been reading about, and felt it might provide some insight into what is going on in some red state areas that might have an effect on the way voters in those areas vote. That's all. And the book I'm reading is not any kind of propaganda, at least not that I can see. People commenting on this thread who are from the areas talked about in this book are saying what the book says is true. I don't have any reason to believe they are lying.