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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I Don't Like Obamacare Because of Obama" Says Woman on Obamacare
This story was on NPR today on the ATC evening news. It is so frustrating.
Rural Northeast CA is in a predicament. Clinics know their patients need ACA coverage or Medicaid but won't tell their reps to support it so county officials are doing it themselves.
Before the election while Obamacare was being implemented officials had to rename MediCal to make it sound like it was a regular insurance plan, not a government handout which these people were too proud to take (from a black man). Since they still didn't pay anything for it I don't know how they filled in that logic gap.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/7/5/1678174/--I-Don-t-Like-Obamacare-Because-of-Obama-Says-Woman-on-Obamacare?detail=emaildkre
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Response to pangaia (Reply #1)
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spanone
(136,008 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's so weird to me that these ignorant deplorables draw the line at being called "racist." They'll wear with pride practically anything you say about them, up to and including Nazis, but when you call their expressions of racism racist, they come unglued.
ck4829
(35,100 posts)atreides1
(16,133 posts)If they don't want the help, then let them choke on their hate, racism, and bigotry!
And these are the people that some "Democrtats" want us to hold hands with and sing Kumbaya!!!
exboyfil
(17,867 posts)One patient at the Mountain Valleys clinic in Bieber, Kay Roope, 64, knew she had Medi-Cal, and she liked it.
"It did me good," she says.
Now she has a subsidized commercial plan through Covered California with modest premiums and copays, and she likes that, too.
"It's OK, 'cause I'm at the doctor's at least once a month," she says.
But when asked what she thinks of Obamacare overall, she says she doesn't like it.
"Because of Obama himself," she says with a laugh. "I rest my case."
From her Facebook profile
419 days until Obama is out of office. Share if you can't wait to get rid of Obama.
Of course in one year she will be on Medicare - another socialized medicine program.
Coventina
(27,234 posts)I so wish I could say that to her face.
Beartracks
(12,854 posts)... they don't want anything to do with that "Obamacare"!
Oh -- And keep your government hands off my Medicare!!!!1!!!1
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Dulcinea
(6,712 posts)Nitram
(23,047 posts)ordinary voters. Politicians are mostly too smart to say it out loud.
Javaman
(62,542 posts)just by calling it something else the stupid feels smart. LOL
I weep for our nation
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