Oklahoma to adopt ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion
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‘Oklahomans voted Tuesday [2020-07-01] to alter their state constitution to expand Medicaid over nearly a decade of opposition by Republican governors, making their state the first to widen the safety-net insurance program as the coronavirus pandemic steals jobs and health benefits.
The expansion’s approval, by a slender margin, means that an estimated 250,000 additional Oklahoma residents will be eligible for the public insurance, including nearly 50,000 who have lost coverage as unemployment has soared this year.
The decision in a Republican-leaning state is rich in political significance. Oklahoma becomes the fifth state in which voters have passed ballot initiatives to expand Medicaid by employing a tool to circumvent the will of GOP governors and legislatures. Another Medicaid-expansion vote is pending in Missouri early next month.
The 50.5 percent vote in favor of Oklahoma’s ballot question, announced late Tuesday night, shows that, even in red states, voters are significantly less hostile to the Affordable Care than President Trump, whose administration is trying to invalidate the law in a case before the Supreme Court. The ACA is the law that gives states the ability to expand Medicaid, a program run jointly by states and the federal government that originated out of the 1960s’ War on Poverty. With Tuesday’s vote, all but 13 states have decided to allow adults without children at home and those with slightly higher incomes into the program.
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It must be tough being a Democrat. June economic and jobs numbers set new records, And while Trump is out telling everyone the good news, Biden is in his basement telling people he plans to raise everyone's taxes, undo everything Trump did that has fueled this booming economy and record employment numbers... and as Biden says .."some people may not like that...."
So apparently all that's left for the Leftwing trash newspapers to tell the foolish sheeple like Ax to talk about is another one of Obama's failed programs. Here's the equation: obamacare=free shit. Free shit=Democrat votes. Free shit to get Democrat votes= bad economy, massive unsustainable debt, with the net number of uninsured ending up about the same as before.
Fools read the Washington post, and fools believe Obamacare is a good thing.
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I believe @Copper mentioned in another thread that 3% of the US uses the ACA.
Why is there such the hate for the program from the Republic side?
Why is there such the love for the program from the Democrat side?
Seems like BOTH sides should focus their energies in other places.
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Because the goal of the program is not to provide health coverage, as it causes more people to end up without insurance than it covers. The goal of the program is to turn 1/6 (I think that's correct) of the economy over to government. Republicans don't want to take over the economy, the democrats do. They want to control every aspect of your life.
