Deep in Trump Country, a Big Stake in Health Care (NYT)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/16/business/economy/trump-obamacare-arkansas.html

Deep in Trump Country, a Big Stake in Health Care
By PATRICIA COHEN | OCT. 16, 2017
Medical care is the job engine in an area that strongly backed President Trump, and the cloud over the Affordable Care Act has left residents uneasy.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — Marjorie Swanson was the first in the family to get a job at Baxter Regional Medical Center after moving to this rural Ozark town from Chicago’s South Side in 1995.

A year later, her husband was hired by the maintenance department. Six months ago, their daughter snagged a job as a pharmacy technician and shares the night shift with her fiancé, who works in housekeeping. Their son started in 2013 as a biomedical technician, repairing medical equipment. He was introduced to his wife by two nurses there: one who is now his mother-in-law and Beverly Green, an aunt through marriage.

“Without our hospital, I’d probably be working at McDonald’s,” said Ms. Green, who was born at the medical center 47 years ago and has worked there for the past 27, first as a nursing assistant, and now as a manager. “Almost everyone has someone related here.”

That’s not surprising in Baxter County, in a part of northern Arkansas known for two dragon-shaped fishing lakes filled with largemouth bass, walleye and bream. The hospital is the single largest employer, with 1,600 people paid to mop floors and code insurance forms, stitch wounds and perform open-heart surgery.

[WinkyDink]

1. So? Elections have consequences, said Rummy.

[Demtexan]

2. They are pro ACA but anti Obama care.

That is what the stupids are saying.

It is now Trump Care.

[Zorro]

3. Trump Country is going to get what it voted for

Get it good and hard.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Tough shit! She leaned Dem but "didn't trust Hillary".

She DID trust a serial liar and a man guilty of sexual assault. I shouldn't have to go bankrupt and die when I lose my ACA with subsidies but I will and she is part of the reason! I have no sympathy. She probably is so stupid that she would believe the Fux Ruse/GOP propaganda BS again next election too. When I spoke with my Covered CA person a month ago and asked about what I could expect my monthly payments to be I told the rep on the phone that I have made over 400 calls to Congress hoping to save the ACA she responded by laughing. I told her that she could lose her job due to the GOP changes and then she stopped laughing.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[mountain grammy]

5. No sympathy