GOP Doesn't Care if You Die

[phantom power]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If the Dems want to crush the GOP, we have more raw material than we could ever use. All we have to do is nationalize the various nasty behaviors of individual Republican assholes. Run ads -- everywhere -- that say "the GOP is a bunch of assholes who would rather see their own constituents die than get behind a successful Democratic health program." Use examples like this to back it up. Dare them to deny it.

The Affordable Care Act offers money to expand Medicaid services in all 50 states. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled that states were not required to accept the federal funds necessary to expand Medicaid services and up to 25 states, all with Republican governors and/or Republican majority legislatures have refused these supplemental funds to increase coverage.

Now a new study by "Harvard and CUNY researchers" estimates that the failure to expand Medicaid benefits in those states will result in thousands of unnecessary deaths because millions of people will forego necessary medical treatments because they will not have acces to healthcare coverage. Coverage that would have been available to them had those GOP politicians chosen to accept the federal supplemental funding for Medicaid expansion:

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Why did these states chose to opt out? One reason only, the desire of GOP politicians to eviscerate the benefits to their constituents (and also to their local economies - small businesses as well as hospital and healthcare systems) in order to claim that the ACA failed to deliver on its promises. It certainly isn't for economic reasons:

With fourteen states opting out, we estimate that 3.6 million fewer people would be insured, federal transfer payments to those states could fall by $8.4 billion [note: this was before an additional 11 states chose to reject federal funding for Medicaid expansion, so these numbers are already too low], and state spending on uncompensated care could increase by $1 billion in 2016, compared to what would be expected if all states participated in the expansion.

Unfortunately, millions of Americans must suffer so these Republicans can falsely claim "Obamacare" is a failure. As more and more studies show, the actions of these Republican officials, both on the national and state level, to deny their fellow citizens health care coverage, thus shifting the financial costs to their constituents is the real failure.

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I'm sorry if you need healthcare coverage but will not receive it simply because you live in a state where the Republicans have chosen to refuse to expand Medicaid. The fact that millions of you that will fit into this category are children makes the actions of these Republican officials even more despicable, immoral and just downright evil.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/2/6/133632/2388