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Originally Posted by Danzig
perry came out today and said (no surprise) no expansion of medicaid, no exchanges. he joins fla, south car, louisiana....
26 states sued fighting obamacare. what will happen with that legislation if over half the country doesn't opt in?
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Notice that it is the poorest, most uninsured, least healthy red states doing this: they choose to simply be killing their poor and lower middle-class citizens by denying them the health care access afforded them legally by the #ACA Medicaid expansion.
Those losers need to be kicked out of office.
What happens? Those states still get to take the money, but don't have to use it for it's intended purpose. Their citizens suffer by remaining out of the health care system.
As far as refusing to set up the exchanges, the federal government comes in and does it for the state, if the state refuses. So the state loses any "states rights" to tailor the exchanges specifically to the needs of that state. They get the generic federal plan.
That will affect you, Danzig, as your governor is refusing to follow the benefits the law gives you. Too bad for you.
Ezra Klein's WonkBlog explains it easily and well
If governors opt their states out of the health law’s Medicaid expansion — as many are now threatening to do — it’s the poorest Americans who would find themselves getting the rawest deal.
This set of charts from our graphics department helps explain why: People who earn less than 100 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (about $11,170 for an individual) are ineligible for tax credits to purchase health insurance. In a state like Arkansas, for example, that could be a big deal:
