Red State Hate Of Obamacare Leaves 5.2 Million Without Coverage

Spite against our first black president is the reason 5.2 million Americans won’t have coverage. Obamacare hatred has become a Republican pathology to the point where it’s harming innocent citizens. Twenty-six states are rejecting expanded Medicaid and the money that comes with it for no other reason than that they want to be able to say “no!”

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina will be particularly hard-hit, as those southern states will fail to provide coverage to at least one-third of uninsured adults, according to a report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. In Texas, more than 1 million people won’t have access to insurance provided through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, while 763,890 Floridians won’t receive health coverage.

Expansion of Medicaid eligibility was intended to provide health insurance for the working poor, those with incomes just higher than the poverty line who would struggle to pay premiums. While the U.S. Supreme Court last year upheld the law known as Obamacare, it also allowed states not to expand Medicaid.

“In states that expand their Medicaid programs, millions of adults will gain Medicaid coverage under the law,” according to the report issued yesterday by the commission affiliated with the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health research group based in Menlo Park, California. “However, with many states opting not to implement the Medicaid expansion, millions of adults will remain outside the reach of the ACA and continue to have limited, if any, option for health coverage.”

And why? Because they hate Obamacare and the person whose name they derisively attached to the Affordable Care Act.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.