Trump supporters in the heartland fear being left behind by GOP health plan

[workinclasszero]

Trump supporters in the heartland fear being left behind by GOP health plan
Republican proposal would upend a healthcare system in Indiana that covers many low-income people – in a program that Mike Pence put in place
Jessica Glenza in Evansville, Indiana Sunday 12 March 2017 07.00 EDT

Janice Phelps, a 60-year-old disabled factory worker in Evansville, Indiana, knows how expensive healthcare is.

Each month, shots for her severe asthma cost $3,000. Quarterly injections for knee pain cost $3,200. Medication for depression costs $900. She has had seven back surgeries, two shoulder surgeries, and two knee surgeries since 1985. The largest public health programs in America – Medicaid and Medicare, which aid the poor and the elderly – paid for nearly all of it.
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Yet, those programs are now threatened by the men she voted for: Donald Trump and former Indiana governor Mike Pence.

“I’m all in favor of repealing it,” she said about Republicans’ push to do away with the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. But, she said when you talk about cutting Medicaid: “I don’t agree with that at all.”

Though Phelps said she would support Trump even if it passed, she is upset by the idea of Medicaid cuts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/12/republican-healthcare-trump-pence-medicaid-indiana

[bunnies]

1. Yeah. She doesn't care if *others* loose their healthcare.

But dammit, don't touch hers! Fuck these people. Greedy, selfish, soulless, assholes.

[workinclasszero]

4. Yes these greedy heartless assholes are the ones we are supposed to cater to and understand

Piss on them!

[bunnies]

15. They clearly lack empathy.

Compassion too. They'll never share our (liberal) worldviews. Why bother. There's way too many non-voters to worry about. Trumphumper's can go fuck themselves. They're dead to me.

[gwheezie]

2. What did they think would happen?

I'm having a hard time working up sympathy for Trump voters. So this person doesn't want other people to have insurance ?

[Horse with no Name]

3. I hope the worst for them

They voted for this shit. They should reap the rewards of it. In spades.

[Blue_true]

9. She said that she would vote for him again as long as he didn't touch Medicaid.

His voters are selfish people who think of no one but themselves.

[Orrex]

5. Don't worry--the Blue states will support them again, as always

Which will leave them hale and hearty to vote Republican again the next time around, as always.

[randr]

6. People who voted forThe twitler

are going to be treated the same way he treats all his help.
If we think they were mad before just wait until this Trumpdontcare proposal sinks in.

[Solly Mack]

7. That's some fucked up thinking there. Screw others but leave my Medicaid alone.

Does she want government out of her health care too?

Where does she think the money comes from for her Medicaid?

If we were all literally in that proverbial boat together - she'd be the one complaining about water leaking in as she sits there carving holes in the bottom of the boat, while wearing the only life-jacket because, to her mind, she earned it.

[Starry Messenger]

8. I'm beginning to resent this genre of story.

The Clinton supporters later in the story deserve the headline.

[Doreen]

10. It is amazing how many people do not

understand that ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid are intertwined. If they had payed attention they would have seen their Medicaid and Medicare changed for the better when ACA came in. Well, they screwed themselves and millions of other people.

[TransitJohn]

11. Fuck 'em.

That is all.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. K&R

[WinkyDink]

13. This woman is so stupid, I resent my taxes helping her with her healthcare.

[dalton99a]

14. "Phelps said she would support Trump even if it passed"

I rest my case.