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A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.
Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help. The federal government will pay for the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years.
Those excluded will be stranded without insurance, stuck between people with slightly higher incomes who will qualify for federal subsidies on the new health exchanges that went live this week, and those who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in its current form, which has income ceilings as low as $11 a day in some states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/health/millions-of-poor-are-left-uncovered-by-health-law.html?hp&_r=0
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)Hoping they will move to the Blue states where people care about their neighbors.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)and under control to boost the reserve workforce to drive down wages and if possible bear the brunt of funding the military and corporate welfare that the TeaPubliKlans love.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Keep them helpless and desperate and easy to control. But keep them on the rolls to ensure that the cash keeps rolling in.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Sadly. And it's very evident here in Indiana where a recent study showed that our 'standard of living' is comparable with the rest of the country's, in 1995. Because Daniels - and now Pence - keeps bringing in asshole companies who pay crap, offer no bene's, rape the landscape and take a shit-ton of tax abatements.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)Actually, I think they want to maneuver back to requiring significant property ownership to vote and then count at 100% for "best of both worlds", full census/limited electorate pretty much limited to wealthy whites but if an Alan Keyes or a Mr. 9-9-9 gets counted in then they'll suck it as a blue moon kinda event.
dsharp88
(487 posts)Why else deny them healthcare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc? So they will die sooner. It's an American Holocaust generated by a domestic terrorist organization led by right-wing extremists to eliminate those who aren't pure.
Wait, didn't this happen somewhere before?
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)They want them in 'for profit' prisons
dsharp88
(487 posts)non-violent offenses.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)by saturating the country with guns, then vilifying the poor at every turn.
mnhtnbb
(31,402 posts)is one of the reasons for the protests of "Moral Mondays" organized
by the NC NAACP but very largely supported by a diversity of
races.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)The price of a good slave in 1855, in today's dollars, would be about $100,000. And then you have to feed them and put up with their illnesses and do something with them when they get too old to work.
Fortunately, American corporations have found the answer. Don't buy the slaves--just lease them for a few bucks an hour & let the Gubmint worry about supplementing their rations. Keep their hours too low for health care, and if they get too sick to work, fire them. Ditto when they get too old to work.