As drug stores and clinics shut down across rural GA, medicade becomes a talking
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-fight-over-medicaid-expansion-in-georgia.html
A national battle over whether to extend public health insurance to low-income adults is at the center of a tightly contested gubernatorial race in Georgia, where hospitals and drug stores are closing across the Republican-controlled state's rural southern and western counties.
Georgia is one of eight states that opted not to expand Medicaid, the federal and state program, that will choose a new governor this year.
Brian Kemp, the two-term GOP secretary of state, and Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic leader in the state legislature, are competing in a race that mirrors the polarizing nature of health care in the country. Kemp opposes broadening the scope of Medicaid, while Abrams is for it.
Basically, back when obamacare first started, our local government said no to any help so the entire thing would crumble here on purpose.
Wait, are they actually called "gubernatorial elections"? I always thought the gubernor thing was just a bad joke about southerners/accents
Comes from Latin "gubernātor", but naturally it's not pronounced in Latin as it is in American English
Those states really didn't expand Medicare to spite the Obama administration.
Killing your own people to own the libs!!!!
there's no justifiable reason to have withheld the aca medicare expansion, not financially, not morally, certainly not ethically, but states did and they celebrate the fact that they're letting people die in the name of the free market.
The reason is Barack Hussein Obama
>people on Medicare voted for Obama
>cause a Medicare shortage
>"Ha, bet you feel stupid for voting D, now!"
>Rs "But I, too, use Medicare!"
>"Yeah well that's what you get for subscribing to SOCIALISM."
>Some Rs "Yeah, I guess that's fair"
This is how fucked some people are, I shit you not.
They didn't accept the expansion because they knew that people would like it and then they wouldn't able to take it away.
The gop strategy is to sabotage the programs until the public hates them, rather than outright repealing.
My state just expanded medicaid \O/
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