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This woman had a chronic health condition, and worked three jobs trying to get by on $11,000 per year. Clearly she was lazy and entitled. Nice job, conservatives.
They're pretend they don't exist just like they always pretend facts and reality don't exist.
They're pretend they don't exist just like they always pretend facts and reality don't exist.
Like all you along with ThinkProgress pretending that the fact that she had options and refused to look into them is what REALLY caused her death? Like THOSE "pretend" facts?
Harvard and CUNY have both came out with studies which show that in republican states over 17000 people will die because lack of welfare expansion.
Look I agree we need a bipartisan effort. However, these people need medicaid expanded now. Republicans want increase military spending and hand out more moneys to corps, then we better take care of Our Voters first.
Harvard and CUNY have both came out with studies which show that in republican states over 17000 people will die because lack of welfare expansion.
Look I agree we need a bipartisan effort. However, these people need medicaid expanded now. Republicans want increase military spending and hand out more moneys to corps, then we better take care of Our Voters first.
Folks..the medicaid expansion raised "poverty qualifications" to 133% FPL.
Another article says she was turned down for medicaid. The article also said she was "estranged" from her husband.
At $9K a year with 3 kids I had to wonder why.
My guess is that she got turned down because she's still married and so her husband's salary counted.
Now if she got turned down for medicaid in 2012 then she also wouldn't qualify for expanded medicaid which actually raised the income eligibility to include people who made more money.
Federal FPL is $23,850/year for a family of 4.
They are not telling us the full story here.
At $9K a year (or $11K from other stories) this women and her 3 kids should have been on multiple welfare programs.
I agree that Obamacare shouldn't have made the Medicaid expansion optional, since many red states would clearly rather have their residents die than let them be helped by anything related to Obamacare.
CLEARLY. Because CLEARLY conservatives hate people. And poor people. And women.
Nice try, but the states are in this predicament because of ObamaCare. They were being forced by the disaster of a law to take the heat off of the feds.
I love how it's being shrieked that conservatives want people to die, but no mention of the thousands of children now off of insurance because of ObamaCare. Guess the left wants children to die?
Folks..the medicaid expansion raised "poverty qualifications" to 133% FPL.
Another article says she was turned down for medicaid. The article also said she was "estranged" from her husband.
At $9K a year with 3 kids I had to wonder why.
My guess is that she got turned down because she's still married and so her husband's salary counted.
Now if she got turned down for medicaid in 2012 then she also wouldn't qualify for expanded medicaid which actually raised the income eligibility to include people who made more money.
Federal FPL is $23,850/year for a family of 4.
They are not telling us the full story here.
At $9K a year (or $11K from other stories) this women and her 3 kids should have been on multiple welfare programs.
She never signed up or she was rejected and didn't try again which happens all the time. The article isn't telling the full story for sure. She could have just went to a hospital and got charity care.
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