Trump cuts to ObamaCare outreach to hit red states most

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2. No political downside for this "strategy"

We've already seen for the past seven years that conservatives will happily, thankfully, and defiantly live sicker and die younger if it means one more headline against "Obamacare" shows up in their local paper or on a Fox chyron. From the get-go when all those Republican-dominated states first successfully challenged the Medicaid expansion and then refused to participate in the expansion, poor and middle class people in Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and other Red states have gleefully gotten sicker rather than accept any gummint hand-outs that might also go to some unspecified "those" people (but we all know who "those" people are).

If Trump's policies make them and their fellow citizens even sicker, that's a price they will gladly pay to stick it to those liberals and their nefarious plan to deliver affordable health care to everyone.