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mikeo56: Letting Us Die: Republican Governors Are The New “Death Panel” Meet the newest “Death Panel” on the block. They are the six Republican governors who have vowed refuse the Medicaid expansion that will happen most other states, under the Affordable Care Act — Rick Scott (FL), Rick Perry (TX), Phil Bryant (MS), Nikki Haley (SC), Terry Branstad (IA), and Bobby Jindal (LA). These Republican governors are opening the “trap door”  that the Supreme Court installed in the Affordable Care Act, even at it upheld most of the law. But it’s the poorest residents in these states, many of whom are African American and Latino, and who would have gained health coverage and access to care, that will fall through that trap door.  While the Court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, it weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the bill.  Since Medicaid is a federally-funded, state-administered program, under the health care reform law, the federal government would pay 100% of the state governments’ additional costs for the first three years of the Medicaid expansion, and 93% each year after that.  As the law was written, the federal government could take away the existing Medicaid funding of states that refused the Medicaid expansion. However, the Supreme Court ruled that states could refuse to expand their Medicaid programs, and the federal government can’t penalize them by taking away their existing Medicaid funding. In other words, the Supreme Right Wing Court left the “carrot” but took away the “stick,” and in the process cut a hole in health care reform just big enough for millions of Americans who need its benefits the most to slip right through. GOP and GOP Supreme Court Scum Are S**t Ladies and Gents, this is the “Death Panel” that Sarah Palin wasn’t really talking about. But, it’s the real death panel.
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Letting Us Die: Republican Governors Are The New “Death Panel”

Meet the newest “Death Panel” on the block.

They are the six Republican governors who have vowed refuse the Medicaid expansion that will happen most other states, under the Affordable Care Act — Rick Scott (FL), Rick Perry (TX), Phil Bryant (MS), Nikki Haley (SC), Terry Branstad (IA), and Bobby Jindal (LA). These Republican governors are opening the “trap door”  that the Supreme Court installed in the Affordable Care Act, even at it upheld most of the law. But it’s the poorest residents in these states, many of whom are African American and Latino, and who would have gained health coverage and access to care, that will fall through that trap door. 

While the Court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, it weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the bill.  Since Medicaid is a federally-funded, state-administered program, under the health care reform law, the federal government would pay 100% of the state governments’ additional costs for the first three years of the Medicaid expansion, and 93% each year after that.  As the law was written, the federal government could take away the existing Medicaid funding of states that refused the Medicaid expansion. However, the Supreme Court ruled that states could refuse to expand their Medicaid programs, and the federal government can’t penalize them by taking away their existing Medicaid funding.

In other words, the Supreme Right Wing Court left the “carrot” but took away the “stick,” and in the process cut a hole in health care reform just big enough for millions of Americans who need its benefits the most to slip right through.

GOP and GOP Supreme Court Scum Are S**t

Ladies and Gents, this is the “Death Panel” that Sarah Palin wasn’t really talking about. But, it’s the real death panel.

(via 6dogs9cats)

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    >:[ Fuckin’ Nikki Haley. Fucking cunt.
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    I’d just like to add that Missouri’s governor, Jay Nixon, is one of a whole bunch of others considering rejecting it....
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    And of course creepy Governor Rick Scott is on there. Thanks, Rick.
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    Sweet. That’s cool. I don’t need health insurance.
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