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In reply to the discussion: Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI [View all]raccoon
(31,130 posts)49. I doubt seriously if most Trump voters have read the book. Or make any sort of connection between
prescription drug addiction and abuse of Medicaid and SSI.
They probably think there's more drug addiction because people aren't going to church and praying enough.
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LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
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Just finished a book called "American Pain" that talked about the pill mills in Florida
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#7
Well, that's true too, just....reading this book feels like another piece of
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#4
Most of the book isn't about the Medicaid fraud, only one chapter, the rest was
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#9
That's what we see in MT too. No jobs, no hope, drugs and booze fill the void.
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#20
Some of them vote against these benefits when the benefits go to non-whites. eom
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#13
I think many people think of Ohio as Cleveland and Cincinnati, not the rural southern part.
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#32
The chapter was on Portsmouth, Ohio. About the clinic Dr. David Procter set up and
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#37