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how about any coverage for poor Americans in southern states?
There's a lot of federal money for Medicare expansion that Red states don't take as part of a dumb anti-Obamacare protest.
Their voters don't seem to care, and the federal government can't force state governments to do anything, so ¯\(ツ)/¯
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/
Yeah, i care, im here.
If you're not voting for the people keeping you from having health care, you're not one of the voters that don't care. Unfortunately, you're in the minority and surrounded by the people who don't care.
Uh huh, youre about up to speed with the beginning of this conversation.
With that context do you get why im asking Biden to uphold his promise to close that gap in the ACA?
Don't get me wrong, I get it. I'm originally from Missouri, and there are many many reasons why I will never voluntarily live in a place like that again.
But at the end of the day, democracy is democracy, and that is what the people of these states want. All I can do is think them rather stupid for that, and leave for a place with people I generally find respectable and intelligent.
Yeah let me just afford a place to live in a much higher cost of living area while im struggling to work due to lack of healthcare.
Yes because it's just the south that has poor people....
No, it's a specific thing predominantly in southern states, where if you dont make a certain amount of money, you get absolutely no help in affording health insurance. It's caused by the states themselves being shitty with a shortcoming of the affordable care act, and closing that shortcoming was one of Biden's promises. And it's been entirely abandoned, so forget mental health coverage, I cant get any healthcare.
Get more people to vote out the idiots running those states. Most of the time it's the shit governer rejecting Medicare from the federal government.
Yeah that aint happening anytime soon
Generally it will be more of the same. It's extremely difficult on purpose for the federal government to force programs on States. They have to choose to adopt the programs.
The federal government generally packages such programs with tax incentives to improve adoption, but the states you're referencing are such tax dollar leeches already they don't really stand to benefit. You know, aside from improving life for their citizens.
They just need to amend the section of the ACA dealing with subsidies. They made the lower limit on qualifying incomes with the intention of medicaid taking over from there. And then some states rejected the medicaid part. So we're left with this awkward hole where you can be too poor to qualify for federal aid.