http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/13/3437342/community-health-center-medicaid/
Tennessee protesters urge their lawmakers to accept Medicaid expansion
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ERIK SCHELZIG
Despite the fact that Affordable Care Act has been in place for four years by now, more than one million low-income Americans who are dependent on community health centers are still going uninsured, according to a new report conducted by researchers at George Washington University.
Patients at community health centers, which receive federal funding to operate in medically underserved communities, are typically even poorer than the uninsured population as a whole. They also tend to be in worse health compared to other low-income people. Nonetheless, many of these vulnerable Americans are locked out of health reform because they live in states that have rejected Obamacare’s optional Medicaid expansion:
According to the researchers, more than 70 percent of those people live in just 11 southern states. And 35 percent of them live within the borders of five states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. The southern region of the United States has historically struggled with higher rates of uninsurance, poverty, and preventable health issues. Nonetheless, GOP lawmakers there continue to resist cooperating with health reform at any cost.
there is no escaping this reality those governors who refused to participate as a slam to Pres. are in fact slamming their constituents, Pres. has insurance those who oppose you having it have it too, PRES. HAS BEEN TRYING TO GIVE IT TO YOU THEY KEEP TRYING TO NOT.
no war on the poor either, yeah right! if i had only this evidence i would be convinced that they don't care about my family but with all the evidence they should be stoned in the halls of congress, but with all the evidence less than half of Americans still will vote for them even the those who are barred from health care because they live in those red states. turn on a light light a candle flick your lighter look at what you'll do if you continue to support those who hate because believe it they hate you too. recognize
