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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
From the article:
"Congress also assumed that states would expand Medicaid eligibility for people like Hedges whose earnings were below the poverty level, Lee said. The ACA requires the federal government pay 100 percent of a state’s expanded Medicaid costs through 2016, and at least 90 percent of the cost thereafter.
But the Republican lawmakers in the Virginia General Assembly (along with legislatures in 21 other states) have refused to expand Medicaid coverage, even though it costs states nothing in the short term and will cost relatively little long term."
Ugh. That's what I really don't understand. These politicians won't expand Medicaid because why? If they think it'll cost them reelection, that indicates some pretty nasty things about the people they represent.
And, the article skimmed over that she has three kids but only receives child support for one. So she's got at least one, maybe two, deadbeat baby daddies out there.
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The repubs in those states are more than willing to let people suffer if it means thumbing their nose at Obama. Every state that refused to expand medicaid is republican controlled.