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It's better to let a few people die than condition them to think the government exists to help them. If this woman had free health care, free food, etc, she wouldn't have any incentive to work anymore.
The ACA was written to move more people of low income onto the Medicaid rolls, so the subsidies weren't meant to apply to them. They were intended to be covered under Medicaid. The "cracks" are in the states where Republican administrations refused to expand Medicaid as the law intended, so these people ended up in limbo. For no reason other than petty partisan politics.
Nothing devours a states budget faster than Medicaid. Promises to cover 90% of the costs are laughable.
You're right. I couldn't care any less. She procrastinated and didn't do the leg work necessary to get herself covered. Now she's dead. Oh well..Sucks to be her.
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Cull the herd!
Comments like the above are the reason the conservative party is unable to attract young voters. Your words are ugly and demonstrate the Republican mindset.
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When the Obamacare (ACA) was first passed the states were mandated to expand Medicaid to anyone making less than 131% of the poverty rate, regardless of age. Based on this assumption, the law did not have built into it subsidies for people making less than 131% of the poverty rate, as they planned on having those people funded by the states. (That was part of that "we have to pass it to see what's in it" part). When the Supreme Court correctly ruled that Obamacare could not mandate states expand Medicaid no one bothered to go back and fix that little glitch, or heck, maybe they hadn't got around to reading it yet. Bottom line, probably the people who most needed the help slipped through the cracks in about half the states. This was one of the most poorly conceived, poorly written, poorly understood, poorly implemented laws in my lifetime and the magnitude of it's impact makes it far worse.
What was poorly implemented were the states who REFUSED the Medicaid expansions - knowing full well that they were hurting their poor.
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