In these red states, they wont get healthcare cause of party loyalty?

... the debates, the primaries

Yes, they are willing to let thousands in their states die.

New Poll Shows Voters in Red States Want to Expand Medicaid

April 8, 2014
by Sally Kohn

According to new polling by Public Policy Poling conducted for MoveOn, in voters support Medicaid expansion in key states by wide margins: 52 to 35 percent in Kansas, 58 to 33 percent in Florida, 59 to 30 percent in Pennsylvania, 54 to 38 percent in Georgia. All are states where Medicaid expansion has been blocked by Republican politicians. In Virginia, where the GOP has also blocked Medicaid expansion, a previous poll found that even a majority of state Republican voters support extending coverage for the state’s low-income residents. And other polls show that three-out-of-four Americans nationwide, including a majority of Republicans, support Medicaid expansion.

Nevertheless, Republicans are actively, single-handedly blocking health coverage for 5 million Americans in 24 states. One academic study suggests that of those 5 million, 10,000 Americans will die this year alone due to lack of insurance. The Medicaid expansion is the law of the land, it’s already paid for, and 5 million more Americans would be getting coverage if Republican politicians hadn’t taken it away because of petty partisanship. [font size="3"]Largely because Republicans want to spite President Obama on a key piece of his namesake legislation, thousands of Americans may die.[/font]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/08/new-poll-shows-voters-in-red-states-want-to-expand-medicaid.html

You'd think elected Republicans would want to ponder that a little closer.

I doubt Republicans do much pondering.

nt

Great work !!!

April 9, 2014

John Gruber is a heath care expert from MIT who advised Romney in the creation of the Massachusetts Plan (Romneycare) and was involved with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). In an interview today with the Washington Monthly, he said out loud what the tradmed has concealed as much as it could:

I think, Harold, the single thing we probably need to keep the most focus on is the tragedy of the lack of Medicaid expansions. I know you’ve written about this. You know about this, but I think we cannot talk enough about the absolute tragedy that’s taken place. Really, a life-costing tragedy has taken place in America as a result of that Supreme Court decision. You know, half the states in America are denying their poorest citizens health insurance paid for by the federal government.

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They are not just not interested in covering poor people, they are willing to sacrifice billions of dollars of injections into their economy in order to punish poor people. It really is just almost awesome in its evilness.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2014/04/almost_awesome_in_its_evilness049831.php

It's simple right and wrong, good and evil. Those who cause the deaths and pain of others by rejecting the medicaid expansion (and money for it) are EVIL. No other word for it. Clergy of all kinds (and all ethical people whether religious or non-religious) should condemn these evildoers.

Name the evil ones. Show the consequences of their evil. Force America to see.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/09/1290777/-Republican-States-Rejection-of-Medicaid-Expansion-Is-Almost-Awesome-in-its-Evilness#

nt

and they're going to keep taking it ... voting against their own interests and getting duped again and again

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024800686#post13

You have to wonder if they'll ever wake up and realize they've been hoodwinked.

not giving up hate for health benefits
freedumb!!!

Toxic Emotions Can Lead to Serious Health Problems

Dr. Cynthia Thaik
02/04/2014

Anger and hatred are natural, but they are also some of the most toxic emotions that we can have. Feelings of rage and hatred build up in the mind, body and soul, affecting the body's organs and natural processes and breeding even more negative emotions. Expressing anger in reasonable ways can be healthy, but explosive people who hurl objects and yell at others frequently may be at greater risk for heart disease. Prolonged bouts of anger can take the toll on the body in the form of high blood pressure, stress, anxiety, headaches and poor circulation. Research also shows that even one five-minute episode of anger is so stressful that it can impair your immune system for more than six hours. All of these health issues can lead to more serious problems such as heart attacks and stroke. Anger and hatred can be directed at yourself or at other people, but either way you lose when you allow these negative foods for the soul to take over. ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-cynthia-thaik/emotional-wellness_b_4612392.html

see https://www.facebook.com/GOPthePartyofMean

Turn red states blue! Many problems solved!

I wonder if anyone has made those Republican governors refusing Medicaid expansion aware of the numbers. And if they have been made aware, how do they live with themselves?

Politics before people.

Just utterly reprehensible.

This story is just heartbreaking ... and there are going to be so many more stories just like it because of Rick Scott's (and the other red-state governors') decision to refuse Medicaid expansion:


This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid

By Tara Culp-Ressler
April 9, 2014

Charlene Dill, a 32-year-old mother of three, collapsed and died on a stranger’s floor at the end of March. She was at an appointment to try to sell a vacuum cleaner, one of the three part-time jobs that she worked to try to make ends meet for her family. Her death was a result of a documented heart condition — and it could have been prevented.

Dill was uninsured, and she went years without the care she needed to address her chronic conditions because she couldn’t afford it.

Under the health reform law, which seeks to expand coverage to millions of low-income Americans, Dill wasn’t supposed to lack insurance. She was supposed to have access to a public health plan through the law’s expansion of the Medicaid program. But Dill, a Florida resident, is one of the millions of Americans living in a state that has refused to accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion after the Supreme Court ruled this provision to be optional. Those low-income people have been left in a coverage gap, making too much income to qualify for a public Medicaid plan but too little income to qualify for the federal subsidies to buy a plan on Obamacare’s private exchanges.

Florida has one of the highest uninsurance rates in the nation, and is home to a disproportionately large number of residents who struggle to afford health services. Nonetheless, lawmakers have continued to resist accepting generous federal funds to expand Medicaid to an estimated 750,000 low-income Floridians like Dill.

full story: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/04/09/3424629/florida-medicaid-charlene-dill/

Rec

Now we need some people bawling at bedsides, at funerals and in grave yards

and they knew it

In MO is the republican controlled General Assembly. Gov. Jay Nixon supports expansion.

RYAN DENSON
APRIL 12, 2014

What kind of heartless monster would support the ER turning away an individual because they lack insurance or aren’t dying right there on the hospital floor? You guessed it! Republicans!

While prominent Republicans, like Mitt Romney, Jim DeMint and Haley Barbour have turned to the “ER’s will treat you” as a way to support the rejection of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, they are quickly changing their tunes. Now, instead of advocating for ERs to treat the uninsured like decent human beings, they aim to keep the uninsured from using emergency rooms at all. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal is lobbying on Congress to allow hospitals to turn people away from emergency rooms who lack health insurance. Let’s remember, President Reagan signed into law The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act is a 1986 which requires hospitals to provide emergency health care treatment to anyone who needs it, regardless of their citizenship or their ability to pay for the said treatments. But the Governor thinks this is all “bad facts” which made “bad law:”

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Georgia Senatorial candidate and current Congressman Paul Broun (famous for his “science is lies straight from the pit of hell” comment) has introduced a bill that would allow ERs to treat only patients who they determine have an “emergency medical condition.”

“(Patient Option Act) Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to allow certified medical professionals to assess the nature and extent of an emergency room patient’s illness or injury to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists (triage).”

The bill is called the Patient Option Act, only it’s not giving any patient any option. It’s giving the hospitals the option to deny service to anyone because they don’t fit the criteria of a “emergency medical condition.”

read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/04/12/gop-doesnt-care-die/