It just makes my head hurt reading comments on other sites arguing *for* this thing. This isn't just about 20 or 30 million people. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US who use any form of health care are impacted by this. Not just people covered by the ACA.
The ACA introduced a TON of expansion money to health care providers. There are thousands of regional hospitals/clinics that sprouted up because of the influx of medicaid dollars. Coverage is also access to care. Regional hospitals thrive off of this since so many of the people in those areas are covered by medicaid dollars. That money goes away and what happens? Those regional hospitals shut down. Access to primary care and non-ICU based care is gone or greatly reduced. People that had a small town hospital are now forced to travel and hour or more to a large hospital. The well above normal pay that the hospital workers and community had from that regional hospital is gone. Jobs are lost. The large hospitals are now forced to take in a higher patient volume than they were prepared for so wait times go up. They are also seeing patients that no longer have any form of major reimbursement so they either have to write it off or jack up the rates for everyone that does have coverage. They are getting a huge reduction in reimbursement as well so they cut back on well paying jobs.
This has such a slippery slope of effect that a gaggle of geriatric old fucks in some mahogany lined state room who don't know the first damn thing about healthcare are driving to save face for promising it for years.
Those states who are benefiting the most are the exact ones that have representatives voting for it.
Keep on MAGA MAGA'ing assholes.
The ACA introduced a TON of expansion money to health care providers. There are thousands of regional hospitals/clinics that sprouted up because of the influx of medicaid dollars. Coverage is also access to care. Regional hospitals thrive off of this since so many of the people in those areas are covered by medicaid dollars. That money goes away and what happens? Those regional hospitals shut down. Access to primary care and non-ICU based care is gone or greatly reduced. People that had a small town hospital are now forced to travel and hour or more to a large hospital. The well above normal pay that the hospital workers and community had from that regional hospital is gone. Jobs are lost. The large hospitals are now forced to take in a higher patient volume than they were prepared for so wait times go up. They are also seeing patients that no longer have any form of major reimbursement so they either have to write it off or jack up the rates for everyone that does have coverage. They are getting a huge reduction in reimbursement as well so they cut back on well paying jobs.
This has such a slippery slope of effect that a gaggle of geriatric old fucks in some mahogany lined state room who don't know the first damn thing about healthcare are driving to save face for promising it for years.
Those states who are benefiting the most are the exact ones that have representatives voting for it.
Keep on MAGA MAGA'ing assholes.