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In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah, voters will directly decide whether their states should expand their Medicaid programs. In Wisconsin, they could elect a candidate for governor who has pledged to sharply curtail drug prices. And across the country, Democratic congressional candidates are running on platforms highlighting their support for protecting insurance coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and lowering drug prices. Health care is on the ballot across the country, with issues ranging from medical marijuana to abortion rights to insurance coverage dominating the conversation.
GOP has been gradually sabotaging it via various SCOTUS rulings; removing the mandate, which makes it more expensive for seniors and those with pre-existing conditions (Legislative branch); and intentionally mis-managing the implementation and oversight of it (Executive branch).
Obama has often said that if someone presents a better plan than ACA tied to real numbers, not just talking points, he would back it. One should have realistic alternatives before complaining.
GOP can promise flying cars that get 200 mph and cost only 3 grand. The hard part is delivering a blue-print that doesn't violate physics and math.
Table-ized A.I.
Obamacare was a good start but the GOP stopped the next steps from happening.
Really bad troll, troll.
For one, it was in the news a few weeks ago that the insurance premiums purchased though the ACA are going *down* this year, in spite of the GOP fighting tooth and nail to sabotage it.
For another, "keep your doctor"? Do you actually *have* medical insurance? Ever company I've worked for in the last 25 years has changed insurance companies every 2-3 years, and our "contributions" keep going up. And there are plenty of doctors who accept one insurance, and not another... and others who take pretty much any of them.
Meaning your bullshit is just that.
And exactly what has the GOP done to improve healthcare in thie US? It's 48 years since LBJ (Democrat) pushed through Medicaid and Medicare. The GOP has NEVER DONE A GODDAMNED THING. It was only the Dems, in '09, who shoved this through, and the GOP wants to repeal it... AND HAS OFFERED NOTHING WHATSOEVER to replace it with. AND they all want to removed protections from pre-existing condition exclusions.
You're posting here, therefor your not a millionaire... so you're a sucker.
States were supposed to expand their Medicaid programs as part of Obamacare. But in order to get it to pass, Congress made that part optional (leave it up to the states). So Idaho, Utah, etc decided "that's dumb! We're republican states and won't do it" so they didn't, and therefore missed out on the federal funding for it. Now they're like, "oh, crap... you mean we can get hundreds of millions of federal dollars if we would have just expanded Medicaid to cover the gap as was part of the original plan?" Okay, better put it up to vote.
It covers the gap between the old Medicaid and the lowest Obamacare tier. If you make just the right amount of money, it's too little to qualify for Obamacare and too much to qualify for Medicaid. So you're stuck with a full premium even though you're on the lower end of the income scale.
There is a mountain of data that shows socialized medicine in first world countries provides great healthcare for half or less the overall cost of our own (both public and private expenditures). The people arguing against it are the same who claim to be economic conservatives but consistently do nothing to balance the budget. Health care for all has been shown to be far more affordable than our current system for decades, the problem is this country is full anti government paranoids and blindly partisan types.
Sure, once a system is in place that works most of these idiots will come around seeing the obvious results that every other first world country has shown but until then they will kick, scream, and flail their little hands. The challenge is getting a system in place that works over the heads of these ignorant masses.
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