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This is why the House did everything to prevent the ACA from starting. The House Teapublicans knew that, once implemented, the ACA would prove popular with the voters and with the state governments.
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Of course it will. The more Teabaggers scream and holler about how evil Obamacare is, the stronger the reaction against them when people realize the world wonât end and death panels wonât kill grandma when it goes into effect. Just hold firm in the presence of their craziness and STAND for something
All it takes is guts.
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Bingo!
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âMead acknowledged that the state is sending tax dollars out of state to pay for other states that have expanded Medicaid while receiving nothing in return.â
Wyoming is pretty white - 93.5% according to my three-year-old almanac - and trust me, for all the talk the Teabaggers spout of staying true to conservative principles, those folks are nearly going insane with fury that the ni(CLANG!) down here in Colorado are getting something they arenât just so some insurance guys can buy a third home in Jackson Hole.
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I guess the need for health insurance outweighed the need to disagree with the Black president.
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Donât be fooled here. If Wyoming goes for the Medicaid expansion it wonât be to help the 17,000 Wyomingites who could qualify. As far as Gov. Mead and the other conservative/Republican/Tea Party extremists in the state are concerned they can just die.
Its because the doctors and hospitals are having to treat them anyway and the federal government isnât going to pay for it anymore except through Medicaid. That is the money that is talking here.
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Scott Walker has yet to see the light and was taken to task in an editorial by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The paper leans right and has supported him in the past yet posted a scathing editorial using the latest data from the bipartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Walker cost the state over $206 milllion and is projected to cost Wisconsin taxpayers over a 1/2 billion dollars.
They said "Driven by ideology and Republican politics Walker was wrong about Obamacare then, and heâs wrong to defend his actions now. Look no further than this latest Legislative Fiscal Bureau report for the proof"
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Even a red state like Arizona jumped on the ACA bandwagon early once they understood how much money would be coming the stateâs way. Of course some of the more crazed members of our state legislature were against even the money involved.
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Any state that doesnât expand Medicaid is insane. There I have said it. Virginia voters should vote every member of their legislature out that votes against expanding Medicaid. Same for Florida and Texas.
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Typical heartless republicanâŚMakes a decision based only on $ not on the health of the citizensâŚ
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About half of the non-white population in American Indian; thatâs where a lot of the racial animus is directed in the Mountain West.
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All of them eventually - except, of course, Alabama & Mississippi - will sign up.
Theyâre just delaying it until after theyâve collected & spent all the âpolitical capitalâ has been collected and wasted from the masses while objecting/opposing it. When the money stops coming in, so will their objections.
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" our hospital association saying weâre handing out $200 million every year just in Wyoming,"
Thereâs the money quote â literally. When the business people in the state start hurting weâll see some action.
Beyond that nobody gives a ratâs ass for the attendant human suffering.
Denying Medicaid to the poor is form of slow genocide, plain and simple.
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I did not know that stat and there are those who regard Native Americans as sub-human. That makes it easier to deny them Medicaid â effectively commit genocide against them.
pretty soon, the baggers will be screaming âget your gubmint hands off my obamacare!â
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Another Red State after that Gubment money, the biggest welfare Queens are red states, the real DEATH PANELS
http://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queens-2011-8#ixzz2OtabJq7d
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I canât wait for day when the governors of all states put the welfare of their citizens above politics and party agenda driven drivel. I wonât be holding by breath or much hope of this happening very soonâŚbut it will happen when the people demand it.
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But but but . . . teh kollapse! How can they accept those dollars knowing that the whole thing will collapse and the promise of 90% federal funding is taken away leaving the state with no alternative but to, er, go back to the way things are now? Also, too: unworkable! And collapse under its own weight!
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May I add âtrainwreckâ?
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