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If the state does not find a way to expand coverage under the Affordable Care Act, working-class Tennesseans who got caught in the cracks caused by illnesses, injuries and hard economic times are among the most vulnerable.Now she figures shell have to stick with a home remedy for her health care plan.
I eat aspirin, she said. Thats all I get is a cheap bottle of aspirins.
She suffers from the pain of an old injury and the nagging depression that comes with growing older and being poor. At age 59, shes too young for Medicare but feels too broken for anyone to offer her a job with health benefits.
Ted Woodward of East Nashville also knows what its like to suck it up. Without health insurance, the 60-year-old man had to wear a girdle for eight months before he finally was able to get a hernia operation.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130328/NEWS07/303280051/Tennesseans-without-insurance-take-care-into-own-hands
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)for a state to decide who will suffer and die....wait a minute ...
is`t this the same as a so called "obama death panel" the right wing was yelling about ?
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)what is. Look in the mirror and decide the next time you are going to vote. Are you going to vote for YOUR best interesting or are you going to vote against things like gay rights or abortion rights that may have no effect on you personally. You have to make up your mind. If you vote for you and your families interest then vote Dem's. If you don't and vote republican then this is what you get. It's up to you. I will always vote in my financial best interest for my family and not vote for social interests that don't effect me and my family.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)that state continue to vote GOP and would never never never vote for a commie Democrat? There is little evidence that their politics will change anytime soon either.
reflection
(6,286 posts)and am constantly amazed at the number of people who serve as useful idiots for the Republican party, practically running through a wall on voting day to cast a ballot against their best interests.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Kinda reminds me of some serious sci-fi deranged movies huh.
indepat
(20,899 posts)can be counted on to do the right thing, the far, far right thing, damn the torpedoes, the hell with the amount of pain, suffering and deaths needless inflicted by doing the far, far right thing, being a good little goose-stepper.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)Standard Spend Down is available through a waiver to the Medicaid program for a limited number of qualified low-income individuals, or those with high, unpaid medical bills who are aged, blind, disabled, or the caretaker relative of a Medicaid eligible child. Eligible individuals must have enough unpaid medical bills to meet the "spend down" threshold to qualify for coverage.
We don't do medicare,we have Tenncare
http://www.tn.gov/tenncare/
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)One of the big benefits of Medicare is the program has bent toward preventative care to bring down costs, the program is a leader in that space. TennCare supposedly helps a lucky few that have gotten buried by medical bills because they became seriously ill. Taking TennCare over Medicare care is equivalent to ignoring a loaded semi as the engine is started up in a parking lot in favor of stopping it two miles down the highway when it has a full head of steam. Little wonder why Tennessee is one of the most backward states in the country when it comes to governance. The good people in that state must act now to take government back from rightwing idiots.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)and still think Tenncare sucks as an alternative to medicare.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)This is working out just the way Republicans want it to -- only people with money deserve health care. Everyone else is expendable.
(do I need the sarcasm thingy here or do you get it?)