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As many as 17,000 Americans will die directly as a result of states deciding not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare...Researchers from Harvard University and City University of New York have estimated that between 7,115 and 17,104 deaths will be "attributable to the lack of Medicaid expansion in opt-out states" in a study published in Health Affairs.
"The results were sobering," Samuel Dickman, one of the authors, said, according to the Morning Call. "Political decisions have consequences, some of them lethal."
They projected that 423,000 fewer diabetics would receive medication to treat their disease. If opt-out states had expanded Medicaid, 659,000 women who are in need of mammograms and 3.1 million women who should receive regular pap smears would have become insured, the study found.
"Low-income adults in states that have opted out of Medicaid expansion will forego gains in access to care, financial well-being, physical and mental health, and longevity that would be expected with expanded Medicaid coverage," the authors wrote.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/harvard-study-medicaid-expansion-deaths
60% Of KY GOPers Buck McConnell, Support Medicaid Expansion
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/poll-kentucky-obamacare-medicaid-expansion
Medicaid Expansion Has Already Cut The Number Of Uninsured West Virginians By A Third
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024366112
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)That appears to be the plan
ProSense
(116,464 posts)The Week in Review
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Obamacare How many people will die if the Affordable Care Act is repealed? Sanders asked at a hearing he chaired Thursday on what would happen if Obamacare is repealed. The hearing came on the 10th day of a government shutdown forced by House Republicans insisting that any deal to reopen the government defund the health care law. Watch excerpts from the hearing, Read Greg Kaufmanns piece in The Nation
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http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-101113
Greg Kaufmann
When the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was in question, independent Senator Bernie Sanders was no easy yea vote.
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In the end, Sanders helped to pass the ACAlegislation that Republicans are now so desperate to repeal that they have shut down the government and put the full faith and credit of the US in jeopardy...He noted that we are (still) the only country in the industrialized world that doesnt guarantee healthcare to people as a right. As a result, there are 48 million Americans without health insurance. Under the ACA, 20 million currently uninsured people will finally receive coverage (more if GOP governors get out of the way) and thousands of lives will be saved every year...Sanders pointed to a Harvard study that estimates 45,000 people are dying each year from illnesses that arise due to a lack of health insurance....For all of those folks saying we have to repeal the Affordable Care Act, what they are doing is passing a death sentence on many of our fellow Americans.
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit organization that advocates for affordable healthcare for all Americans... used a conservative methodologydesigned by the nonpartisan Institute of Medicineto determine how many people between the ages of 25 and 64 died in 2010 due to a lack of health insurance.
We found that approximately 26,100 people between the ages of 25 and 64 died prematurely due to a lack of health coverage that year, said Pollack...this breaks down to 2,175 people dying every month, 502 every week, and seventy-two every day...between 2005 and 2010, it added up to 134,000 preventable deaths...Thats a number that resonates with Independent Senator Angus King of Maine, who shared his personal experience with health being determined by coverage.
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These deaths occur invisibly, he said. They occur one at a time, all over the place, and it doesnt say in the obituary died because of no healthcare. If it happened all in one town, at one time, we would be moving heaven and earth to solve this problem, if we lost anywhere from 26,000 to 45,000 (people) a year. If we lost the town of Augusta in one year, and the next year it was someplace in Colorado, or Vermont, this society would have dealt with this many, many years ago.
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/176599/week-poverty-what-defunding-obamacare-really-means
warrant46
(2,205 posts)Refuses to take Medicaid for Wisconsin Backed up by his Gerrymandered Repuke Assembly and Senate
Follows the dictates of his Masters Charles and David Koch
http://host.madison.com/transcript-of-prank-koch-walker-conversation/article_531276b6-3f6a-11e0-b288-001cc4c002e0.html
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)How can the poor in Wisconsin survive?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Rationing. Governments picking winners and losers.
The wingnuts were correct in precisely the way they always are. We can't say Palin didn't warn us.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Is this a great country or what?
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)My family and friends who never had Health Care are now getting Health care. I tell anyone and everyone and everyone to get covered. I push the Affordable Care Act through my facebook page. I tell anyone who will listen. And you know that I am streeing the deadline. I personally did not work as hard as I did to help get Health Care for any tricked out republican to take it away from my Country. The fight we had with Republicans to get some type of Health Care law passed, wore out every member of the Democratic Party I know. Some of us had to take time off just to recouperate. So I will promote it just like I pushed to make it law. And from the people of Michigan, Thanks fellow Dems you help make all this possible. Together we can do anything. It might not be easy but we can get it done. Now let's really piss off Republicans and expand it to single payer.