[Vision2020] Could have been written in idaho

[Debi Smith]

Yep. I am in her boat, just Idaho instead of N. Carolina. Can't afford 
meds, however: I think she was a lunatic,supporting GOP policies and 
right wing agendas. My life matters, damn it. And so did hers. What the 
hell is the matter with a country as strong and rich as ours that is 
able to allow people to die for lack of medical care while convincing 
them their death doesn't matter but the right wing agenda does?  I am 
flummoxed! And disgusted
Debi R-S

On 3/29/2016 4:20 PM, Ron Force wrote:
> ​From digby's blog:
>
> ​*The cheapest patient is a dead one*
>
> by Tom Sullivan
>
> A doctor's letter to the editor 
> <http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2016/03/21/kinston-doctors-letter-is-an-absolute-must-read-for-legislators-refusing-to-expand-medicaid/>:
>
>     I had the pleasure of taking care of a North Carolina constituent
>     recently. She is in her early 60s with severe heart failure
>     acquired as a genetic abnormality. She works in a small diner here
>     and makes $9,000 a year. She needs a defibrillator, which costs
>     from $50,000 to $80,000.
>
>     She does not have health insurance since she cannot afford to buy
>     on the open market. She tried the Affordable Care Act. The cutoff
>     is above her pay so she is not eligible. Since Republican
>     lawmakers are fiscally responsible, she understands why they
>     rejected money that was coming from Washington to expand Medicaid.
>     After all, they have to do what is best for the people in other
>     states that expanded Medicaid or what is best for their friends in
>     the insurance and pharmaceutical industry.
>
>     She fully supports GOP policies because, after all, what is one
>     life worth? She also understands that the general Republican
>     thought that Medicaid expansion is a Democratic socialist ploy had
>     nothing to do with why they did not adopt it.
>
>     I regret to inform you that she died a few days ago. I am pretty
>     sure she and her family are thankful to Republicans for saving all
>     this money. She totally understands the position that the cheapest
>     patient is a dead patient.
>
>     PRADEEP ARUMUGHAM, M.D.
>     KINSTON
>
> The letter might have been written in any of the 19 states 
> <https://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/current-status-of-the-medicaid-expansion-decisions-healthreform3.png> that 
> have refused Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
>
> <https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tImzjsS7XYw/VvJk7LCx4gI/AAAAAAAABB0/joW35IX_ZgAuNnbWMf9mzFlPiRyTHVSsg/s1600/current-status-of-the-medicaid-expansion-decisions-healthreform3.png> 
>
>
> Count her as "died quickly 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usmvYOPfco>."
>
>
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