Why Conservatives Allow People to Die w.o. Medicaid in TX

Bombs and missiles don't make themselves obviously.

 

Let's be more specific, this is nothing less than deliberate genocide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity

 

This will continue to be an issue for republican elected officials.

GOP Lawmakers Confronted By Constituents Demanding To Know Why They Won’t Expand Medicaid

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a right-wing group funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers, has been aggressively pressuring states to reject Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion. Last fall, the organization launched a massive campaign that has focused mainly on Virginia. But the latest town hall meetings hosted by AFP in the state aren’t exactly going well.

Over the past week, at several town halls intended to emphasize why Virginia shouldn’t expand Medicaid, GOP lawmakers have been confronted by constituents who are demanding to know why they’re denying health care from an estimated 400,000 low-income residents.

Last week, at an AFP-sponsored forum in Charlottesville featuring two GOP lawmakers who oppose the expansion, the event was packed with more than a hundred Medicaid supporters. Protesters gathered outside the building with signs encouraging passing cars to honk for Medicaid expansion, and a local outlet noted that the politicians faced a “hostile audience” inside, too.

Then, on Monday, three Republicans were “deluged with questions” about their refusal to expand Medicaid at an AFP event in Ashburn. The “largely hostile, relentless audience” asked why the lawmakers would want to turn down the billions in federal funding that’s designated for the states expanding their public health programs, particularly since business groups in Virginia support the policy.

Also on Monday, an anti-expansion Republican faced push back at an AFP town hall in Waynesboro, fending off multiple questions about Virginia’s refusal to extend coverage to additional low-income residents. Attendees pointed out that the benefits of expanding the program outweigh the potential costs.

Progressive groups in the state are encouraging lawmakers to listen to their constituents, and put public policy before partisan opposition to Obamacare. “Members of the House of Delegates face an important decision,” Anna Scholl, the executive director of ProgressVA, noted in a statement.

Although Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has continued to push for Medicaid expansion, the policy has been blocked by the GOP-controlled legislature. This isn’t the first time that state lawmakers have sparked controversy for their position in this area. Earlier this month, health care advocates blasted lawmakers for voting to spend $430 million dollars to build new offices for elected officials — the same amount of money that Virginia has missed out on because of its continued refusal to accept the funding for Medicaid expansion.

Virginia isn’t the only state where this dynamic is unfolding. Continued GOP-led resistance to Medicaid expansion is leaving an estimated 5.8 million impoverished Americans without any access to affordable health care whatsoever. Nonetheless, AFP has poured millions into anti-Obamacare advertising campaigns, and has specifically attempted to block Medicaid expansion in at least six states. Thanks to those well-funded misinformation campaigns about health care reform, many uninsured Americans in the poorest states don’t understand what their new options are under Obamacare.

 

Man! Once republicans start to lose seniors look out!

Republican Governor Scott Went Looking For Obamacare Horror Stories But Found Satisfied Seniors

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) went to a senior center on Tuesday to warn of the dangers of Obamacare and hear horror stories about the law. But instead Scott found almost all the seniors he talked to were satisfied with the new law.

There were 20 seniors who were assembled at a roundtable at the Volen Center in Boca Raton for Scott's visit, according to The Florida Sun Sentinel. But the seniors expressed satisfaction with their health care and even praised Obamacare.

Harvey Eisen, 92, said he was "completely satisfied" with Obamacare, according to the Sun Sentinel. Eisen also cast doubt about Scott's claim about cuts to Medicare that come through Obamacare. But that wouldn't be the end of the world even if there were, Eisen said.

 

They deserve the freedom to die. Freeeeeeedumb!

 

What glynch posted is true, and it is an abomination. Every American living in the states deliberately treating their citizens this way should be ashamed. Ashamed that they elected those responsible. That includes the state I am ordinarily proud of, Texas, but I am not proud of this.

 

I think this is close to true, but uncomfortable with slinging around the word 'moral' like that. I think the conservative viewpoint on it is built heavily around capitalist ideals of rewarding high performers and punishing low performers. In the case of Dill, she may have worked hard, but she didn't work smart. She didn't get the education or training she needed to get a better job, or maybe she didn't seek the right kind of work, or didn't go after it hard enough. She had a character failing of some kind (you can call it a 'moral' failing if you are liberal with definitions) that she should have overcome. She should have (and implicitly, could have) pulled herself up by her own bootstraps. And while they may have nothing against Dill in particular, who at least was trying, they're scared to death to create an environment that doesn't have this very strong incentive for everyone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. A few thousand (or even hundreds of thousands) early deaths is worth it to perpetuate a system in which millions of others will achieve more because they have to for their own preservation.

I don't agree, but I think that's the argument that has the most merit, at least.

 

They need to learn from Obama and other liberals.

 

Of course Seniors are happy the PPACA is closing the hated doughnut hole that Bush included as part of the Medicare Part D legislation. Medicare providers are receiving less annual increases in reimbursements and Part C plans have reduced subsidies but that isn't effecting Grandma and Grandpa who are now elated that their out of pocket costs for drugs are down significantly.

Maybe if Rick Scott actually read the legislation before he went to the Senior Center.....nah