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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Saturday, October 25, 2014

GOP Moral Bankruptcy in North Carolina




The US is the only INDUSTRIALIZED NATION that fails to provide UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE...and our statistics show it.
Why would any reasonable person deny Americans HEALTH CARE?


On Monday the North Carolina NAACP held a mock funeral to dramatize the deaths that will result because of state politicians' refusal to expand Medicaid. The following day, state House Speaker and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis -- an outspoken opponent of expansion -- said that perhaps the state should reconsider.

The South has been a bastion of resistance to expanding Medicaid to more low-income, uninsured Americans under the Affordable Care Act -- but now even one...
SOUTHERNSTUDIES.ORG





Date on which the North Carolina NAACP held a mock funeral in Raleigh to protest North Carolina politicians' refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act: 10/20/2014
Number of caskets protesters carried through the city streets to the General Assembly to dramatize the deaths that will occur as a result of that policy: 3
Number of North Carolinians expected to die this year alone because of the Republican-led legislature's rejection of Medicaid expansion: 2,800
Number of North Carolinians who now lack health insurance but who would get coverage under Medicaid expansion: more than 500,000
Days after the protest that state House Speaker and U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis, who has faced criticism for hisoutspoken opposition to Medicaid from Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan, said the state should consider expanding the program: 1
Year in which Tillis ran political ads bragging that he "stopped Obama's Medicaid expansion cold": 2014
Percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion that would be paid for by the federal government through 2017: 100
Percent of the cost that would be paid for by the federal government thereafter: 90
Amount North Carolina hospitals stand to lose in reimbursements over the next decade as a result of rejecting expansion: $11.3 billion
Amount North Carolina would lose in Medicaid funding over that same period: $39.6 billion
Total amount that the 24 states refusing Medicaid expansion would lose in federal funds through 2022: about $423 billion
Of those 24 non-expansion states, number that are in the South: 10
Number of Southern states that have agreed to expand Medicaid coverage to date: 3*
According to a poll conducted last month, percent of likely North Carolina voters who support Medicaid expansion: 57
Percent who oppose it: 28
* Arkansas, Kentucky, and West Virginia

http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/10/institute-index-support-for-medicaid-expansion-gro.html

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