Virginia Expands Medicare- 400,000 More Americans to Have Insruance

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Effective Jan. 1, Virginia will join 32 other states and the District in expanding Medicaid coverage under the ACA. There are indications that several more will soon follow.

1. Thanks Obama! Looks like Obamacare isn't quite as dead as Donnie's tweets would have you think.
2. Elections matter.

“Opposition in the House crumbled after Democrats nearly won control of the chamber in November, amid a blue wave widely viewed as a rebuke to Trump,” Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider report from Richmond. “A chastened House Speaker M. Kirkland Cox (R-Colonial Heights), seeking to rebrand Republicans as results-oriented pragmatists, came out in favor of expansion if work requirements, co-pays and other conservative strings were attached. In February, 19 of the 51 Republicans in the House joined Democrats to pass a budget bill that expanded Medicaid, apparently concluding that they have more to fear from energized Democrats and independents than from potential primary challengers on the right.”

3. Democratic policies on healthcare are more popular than Republican policies. Democrats need to find a way to make politics about policies rather than personalities. Any Democrat running in 2020 should have Universal Healthcare at the top of the platform.

-- Some Virginia GOP strategists have been eager to take the Medicaid issue off the table. The most recent credible survey is from Christopher Newport University in January and February, which found that 58 percent of registered Virginia voters supported the expansion while 38 percent opposed it. The survey provided detailed arguments for and against the idea, which can lead to different results than a simple support-oppose question.

That poll corroborated a Quinnipiac University poll in April 2017, which found a similar 59 percent of registered Virginia voters saying a Medicaid an expansion is a “good idea” while 30 percent said it was a “bad idea.” Support was similar, 57 percent, when respondents were told the federal government will cover 90 percent of the costs while the state would cover just 10 percent.

More than half of all ads run by Democratic House candidates since the start of this year have mentioned health care (53.3 percent), according to data from Kantar Media. That’s more than any other issue, including anti-Trump messages (which have appeared in 43 percent of Democratic commercials).

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[Big Nasty Edison]

Bunch of commie Marxist scum!!!!!

 

[HomerThompson]

Good for Virginia.

 

[ultramanhyata]

1. Thanks Obama! Looks like Obamacare isn't quite as dead as Donnie's tweets would have you think.

Medicaid expansion... The one non-market, non-private sector based component in the otherwise market, private sector based ACA that hasn't proved a complete shit show. Nice work, Barry!

 

[nostradumbass]

I don't have a problem with universal medical insurance, but I think the federal penalty was the most fucked up part of obamacare.

 

[Bloodworth]

I don't have a problem with universal medical insurance, but I think the federal penalty was the most fucked up part of obamacare.

But the problem with that is, in America there is a huge population of people that will never care about their health or give one penny to health insurance.

Only a small percentage of the population will be responsible for footing the bills.

And that is in a lot of sectors now and it is about to blow up.

5 kids in a classroom of 25 that have parents that contribute to the school tax. The rest mooch.

More people driving on roads and bridges then there is people paying tax on the repairs .

The gap between the tax contributors and those that avoid them is too big.

 

[SaiWa]

But the problem with that is, in America there is a huge population of people that will never care about their health or give one penny to health insurance.

Only a small percentage of the population will be responsible for footing the bills.

And that is in a lot of sectors now and it is about to blow up.

5 kids in a classroom of 25 that have parents that contribute to the school tax. The rest mooch.

More people driving on roads and bridges then there is people paying tax on the repairs .

The gap between the tax contributors and those that avoid them is too big.

Where da hell are you getting those numbers from??? You pulling that out of your ass?

And btw, there are way more people out there without kids who are paying this school tax. Maybe they should have to pay it either.. Then we can really sink our education budget down to the nether regions of hell...

 

[nostradumbass]

But the problem with that is, in America there is a huge population of people that will never care about their health or give one penny to health insurance.

Only a small percentage of the population will be responsible for footing the bills.

And that is in a lot of sectors now and it is about to blow up.

5 kids in a classroom of 25 that have parents that contribute to the school tax. The rest mooch.

More people driving on roads and bridges then there is people paying tax on the repairs .

The gap between the tax contributors and those that avoid them is too big.

For sure it's not ideal, and the democrats want open borders so like half the country is on the hook for the entire world's medical coverage. In theory it's not so bad, but democrats are trying to sell us open borders and a welfare state, which I'm clearly not on board with being one of the half who actually have a federal tax burden. We never have had an actual free market system. My grandmother dug up receipts a few years ago and her 1 week stay and a baby delivery for my dad's brother was $28. That and university costs have gone up horrifically because the gov't started dipping their hands in and we certainly do not a free market system for either.

This isn't really controversial to say, but obamacare was made to fail so that when it failed, they could then say "see, we need single payer". They all got bummed when Trump quit it, but premiums went up 105% in 4 years by design.

 

[Falsedawn]

For sure it's not ideal, and the democrats want open borders so like half the country is on the hook for the entire world's medical coverage. In theory it's not so bad, but democrats are trying to sell us open borders and a welfare state, which I'm clearly not on board with being one of the half who actually have a federal tax burden. We never have had an actual free market system. My grandmother dug up receipts a few years ago and her 1 week stay and a baby delivery for my dad's brother was $28. That and university costs have gone up horrifically because the gov't started dipping their hands in and we certainly do not a free market system for either.

This isn't really controversial to say, but obamacare was made to fail so that when it failed, they could then say "see, we need single payer". They all got bummed when Trump quit it, but premiums went up 105% in 4 years by design.

Show me on the Democratic party platform where "open borders" (or any variation thereof) is listed. We'll say within the last 50 years to make it easy for you.

Judging by your uninformed bit on the ACA, i'm going to assume that you won't be able to find it. I'm open to being proven wrong.

 

[Bloodworth]

Show me on the Democratic party platform where "open borders" (or any variation thereof) is listed. We'll say within the last 50 years to make it easy for you.

Judging by your uninformed bit on the ACA, i'm going to assume that you won't be able to find it. I'm open to being proven wrong.

Democrats not for open borders? ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

[Falsedawn]

Democrats not for open borders? ha ha ha ha ha ha

Sorry, I don't speak dipshit.

 

[Bloodworth]

Where da hell are you getting those numbers from??? You pulling that out of your ass?

And btw, there are way more people out there without kids who are paying this school tax. Maybe they should have to pay it either.. Then we can really sink our education budget down to the nether regions of hell...

Never in history have schools needed federal grants to cover their bottom line.
Tax payers always provided plenty.
Today tax money is not even close to enough.

Today and right by me there are 15 people per single family home.

At the bus stop they need 2 buses back to back now to fit all the newly arrived.

The schools were not physically built to hold the number of students seen today.

It was forever, until now, today they bring in trailer park classrooms and park them on the fields to cover the over flow.

One school by me has to transport a few classes of students to the local community college for space.

Its amateur hour in the schools and just not how 2018 Americans schools should operate.

Could have been easily prevented and foreseen

 

[Bloodworth]

Sorry, I don't speak dipshit.

Democrats are BLM, LGBTQ, muslims, illegals and antifa.

Who do you side with?

 

[cincymma79]

Republicans don’t care about states doing it
How many times does that have to be repeated

 

[Falsedawn]

Democrats are BLM, LGBTQ, muslims, illegals and antifa.

Who do you side with?

Can anyone assist with this? I don't speak dipshit.

 

[nostradumbass]

Show me on the Democratic party platform where "open borders" (or any variation thereof) is listed. We'll say within the last 50 years to make it easy for you.

Judging by your uninformed bit on the ACA, i'm going to assume that you won't be able to find it. I'm open to being proven wrong.

No need to "make it easy", this is from like 3 or 4 weeks ago.

That did take a whole 2 second google search. Now find me 1 current democrat who wants secure borders and has said it in the last few years. I'll wait.

 

[Seano]

Can anyone assist with this? I don't speak dipshit.

He listed a bunch of dipshits that he assumes you support.

 

[Jack V Savage]

For sure it's not ideal, and the democrats want open borders

LOL!

What does it say that these guys are literally unable to discuss any issue without telling obvious lies?

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

I see the great state of Virginia has fallen under the nefarious cloak of Marxism. Where is Roy Moore when you need him?

 

[nostradumbass]

LOL!

What does it say that these guys are literally unable to discuss any issue without telling obvious lies?

Thanks for responding. I believe it was @Cubo de Sangre and I who both tried to get you to give your limit on immigration and you straight up deflected and then left the thread. How many should the US take in? I want a real answer.