How Is Obamacare Working Out for You?

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yay, virginia. that'll show obama, not expanding medicaid like that. if a few people (well, a few hundred thousand in that one state) have to do without...at least obama's getting his.
what, half the states voted not to expand...so guess who all is affected? all the people who still have coverage, and all the others who will continue to pay higher prices to pick up the slack.

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.