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Um, Medicaid wasn't supposed to be optional until the supreme court struck down the provision making medicaid expansion mandatory and instead made it optional. Just face it, political grandstanding by the Republicans did cost this woman her life. You have no one to blame besides Republicans for this folly
See the post above yours. They aren't upset by her death, they are celebrating it.
yes the artilce said 3 children and 3 part time jobs
and she and her children were FULLY QUALIFIED for FULL medicaid...as well as :
Florida Food Assistance Program
Florida Head Start Program
Florida KidCare (SCHIP)
Florida Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Florida Medicaid
Florida Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Florida Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
she and her 3 kids were FULLY qualified for each of those programs available to her
Um, Medicaid wasn't supposed to be optional until the supreme court struck down the provision making medicaid expansion mandatory and instead made it optional. Just face it, political grandstanding by the Republicans did cost this woman her life. You have no one to blame besides Republicans for this folly
yes the artilce said 3 children and 3 part time jobs
and she and her children were FULLY QUALIFIED for FULL medicaid...as well as :
Florida Food Assistance Program
Florida Head Start Program
Florida KidCare (SCHIP)
Florida Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Florida Medicaid
Florida Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
Florida Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
she and her 3 kids were FULLY qualified for each of those programs available to her
Too bad none of those actually helped her with her heart condition, apparently.
The fact is, no more people have health care in this country now than they did 6 years ago. Furthermore many of those that have had to go onto the ACA now have a deductible that they can't afford to pay that they didn't have 6 years ago. If you think that the ACA, as written is an end all be all, you are delusional. With or without the subsidies. Eventually the federal funding is suspended, then what? The states will be straddled with the expense, which as a resident of your state, you will have to pay. Most states don't have the revenue to even begin to assist with subsidies. We need healthcare in this country, but this plan, as currently written and imposed is not the answer. I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that this isn't it.
Why didn't the dip**** sign up for the ACA through the Feds?
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Originally Posted by workingclasshero
Hmmm
she made 11k or less...which means she FULLY QUALIFIED for FULL medicaid (government care)
an 'expansion' or lack there of medicaid has zero to do with her death
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.
If you had read the article she TRIED to sign up using the fed site and she fell in between the cracks of making to much for the regular medicaid and to little for the fed to help so it was up to the state to help with the expansion which they didn't want. Republicans are a sick breed. truly.
wrong she fully qualified for medicaid and schip along with her children
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