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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
5. Are you really asking why?
Fri May 3, 2019, 08:32 AM
May 2019

The math is simple. If you are GOP in a area that has done well with the ACA--like California or any of the other states that took the Medicaid expansion--your constituents will lost insurance if Trump prevails and you (the GOP Congressman) will lose your next election.

Trump, on the other hand is trying to court the electoral votes of states that did not take the expansion, meaning his base in these states does not have any health insurance to lose. They would love nothing better than to see people in other states lose their health insurance, because Trump supporters are basically dicks who would rather see someone else suffer than vote in their own self interest. Plus, if Trump appears to be going against his own party, it makes him look more mavericky.

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