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Stop the GOP Medicaid Blockade
GOP governors and legislators in 24 states
continue to block the Medicaid expansion. Millions of the working poor who
should have gotten coverage under the Affordable Care Act are going without.
The Partisan Political
Body Count
Charlene Dill worked three jobs to support
her children. Estranged from her husband and miles from her roots in
Pennsylvania, she had to make it on her own.
Too poor to afford a private plan, she earned
too much to qualify for her state Medicaid program.
Charlene collapsed in a stranger's living
room selling vacuum cleaners on commission. Her 3-, 7- and 9-year-old will not
see their mother anymore.
Governor Rick Scott of Florida won't expand
Medicaid to cover poor working people in their state, even though the federal
government will pick up the entire bill for the first three years.
Florida, like 23 other states, chose the
fraudulent partisan assault on Obamacare over the health of their citizens.
On this Nurses' week, tell the 24 governors
to put aside petty politics and expand Medicaid to cover low-wage workers.
Rick Scott never knew Charlene Dill, but he
will know her name.
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Who is next?
They are workers who take the early bus. They do the hard jobs others
don’t want. They clean the streets. They mop the hospital floors and clean out
the bed pans. They earn too much for their state Medicaid programs but far too
little to purchase private coverage.
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