"Pro-life" groups sue to stop expansion of healthcare to the poor in Ohio

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Sickening.

http://prospect.org/article/cruelty-republican-states-one-chart

Think about the cost of living in each state though. $41,000 in places like D.C. isn't worth as much as states like Alabama.

I can assure you Alabama's and DC's living costs do not vary by a magnitude of 900 percent.

I am surprised that my state's threshold isn't the lowest. Better keep quiet about that, lest some state legislator decide he won't rest until we're stingier with Medicaid benefits than Arkansas.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Sickening.

http://prospect.org/article/cruelty-republican-states-one-chart

Think about the cost of living in each state though. $41,000 in places like D.C. isn't worth as much as states like Alabama.

I can assure you Alabama's and DC's living costs do not vary by a magnitude of 900 percent.

I am surprised that my state's threshold isn't the lowest. Better keep quiet about that, lest some state legislator decide he won't rest until we're stingier with Medicaid benefits than Arkansas.

I'd like to see Medicaid expanded to compensate the difference for those with pre-existing conditions who would have to pay higher rates rather than doing it how Obamacare sets it up. Medicaid is a good program that helps a lot of people. In fact, a lot of immigrants benefit from it when first entering our country until they're able to afford their own health insurance or get a job with benefits.

You're one of those people who thinks there's this endless stream of poor people coming into America and immediately setting themselves up on Medicaid and food stamps and ObamaPhones and then kicking back and having a big taxpayer-funded fiesta, aren't you?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

The way it works is like this:

Mother and two children in Minnesota:

Mother makes $40,000/year from a combination of child support and a full time job.

She goes to the MNSure website to shop for health insurance for her family.  The site informs her that her children are both eligible for Medical Assistance (medicaid) and that she is eligible for MinnesotaCare.  Her childrens' health insurance will include no out of pocket costs to her while her MinnesotaCare plan will include a $50 monthly premium and $3 copays for prescriptions and doctor visits.

Mother in Alabama with two kids... mom makes $30,000 from a combination of child support and working a full time job that doesn't offer insurance.

Nobody in the family gets health insurance because they refused to expand Medicaid and she cannot qualify for subsidies to buy private insurance.

When she or one of her children are sick, they must wait until it's very bad and then go to the emergency room.  Several weeks later she gets a bill in the mail for $2500 because the child's illness had gotten bad enough that they had to do several chest xrays to rule out possible pneumonia.

Bill goes unpaid for lack of money and her credit rating tumbles so that now she can no longer qualify for the car she was going to buy as her current one is gettng very old and is not dependable.



Seriously.. what the f**k is wrong with you Republicans?

But Snowguy, expanding Medicaid would rob that woman of her initiative and deprive her of any opportunity to better herself. One minute we're establishing AlabamaCare, the next minute she's pushing a shopping cart full of illicitly purchased flat screen TVs through a Wal-Mart parking lot because there was a glitch in the food stamp card system.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Does Oregon strike anyone else as something of an outlier on the Medicaid chart? Or does anyone know the reason for their cutoffs being so low?

I also recall reading somewhere that Oregon had one of the highest food stamp enrollment rates in the country. I always thought of them as a relatively affluent state.