Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wonder if this article is read and understood
by those on living in Red States and now on the ACAs expanded Medicaid.
Will regret voting republican..Or would they have no idea of whats going on and only
figure it out when they receive notification.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120206/supreme-court-obamacare-decision-king-v-burwell-life-or-death
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
7 replies, 1506 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (1)
ReplyReply to this post
7 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
I wonder if this article is read and understood (Original Post)
busterbrown
Nov 2014
OP
JustAnotherGen
(31,810 posts)1. Most likely not
At the time, the law had relatively few beneficiariespeople under 26 covered by their parents health plans, a small population of people with pre-existing medical conditions. But some of them had already used their new coverage to finance the kinds of life-saving treatments that would leave them in need of chronic care for the rest of their lives. Take away the health law, and most of these organ transplant recipients and other patients would have become unable to afford their medications, and some of them would die.
Since then, millions of people have gained coverage under the law, and that group of chronic care patients has grown much larger. But despite the fact that the Court upheld the law, and President Obama won reelection, the ACA isnt out of danger.
On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that will determine whether the federal government can continue to subsidize private ACA coverage in states that didnt set up their own insurance exchanges.
That case is King v. Burwell, but the issue at stake has come to be defined by a comparable case called Halbig v. Burwell.
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. They will, of course, be told to blame Obama. And that's what they will do.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)5. Exactly. Somehow Faux will convince the sheeple that Obama did it.
JustAnotherGen
(31,810 posts)3. Jennifer Causor faces a Death Panel
She is referenced in your op. her story is at the below link.
If this five old men sucking up my tax dollars for their health insurance decide AGAINST this woman's life -
I won't support any Democratic Candidate in 2016 who doesn't refer to those five as the Death Panel.
Candidates don't have to be precise - they need to spark passion and anger. Taking Death Panel away from Republicans and using her death or bankruptcy as a tool to pummel them with those words - I will completely support.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/09/3563817/deadly-consequences-of-halbig/
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)4. Anyone who votes Republican deserves whatever they get, and worse.
They deserve the suffering they heap on everyone else through their venal stupidity.
WhiteTara
(29,703 posts)6. They'll be told it was Obama's fault
and they will believe it and die early from lack of medical care again.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)7. I do not believe this affects Medicaid.