War On Women: The Impact Of Republican Governors Rejecting Medicaid Expansion

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War On Women: The Impact Of Republican Governors Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Jul 13, 2012 at 6:00 pm

Medicaid expansion is just the latest battlefield in the Republicans’ ongoing war against women. Republican governors turning down health care funds are making a political statement, but in the process are hurting, not helping, the women their states.

In fact, the two states with the highest number of uninsured women — Florida, where 30.3 percent are uninsured, and Texas, where 26.2 percent are — have been most vocal in opposing the expansion. Here is why turning down the Medicaid expansion is a war on women:

– Women are far more than half of Medicaid recipients. In fact, they make up 68 percent of the programs participants. That’s because women tend to live longer and meet more of the eligibility guidelines (often because they have children):



<..> – Women will not have expanded access to preventative care. Currently, women without coverage don’t seek care that could save their lives, and their dollars, later on down the line. But women who are eligible for Medicaid tend to seek preventative treatment at about the same level as women on private insurance plans:

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The governors opting out are doing this out of pure spite against the ACA. The federal gov will pay 100% for the first two years of medicaid expansion. This drops to 90% after two years. Currently the federal gov pays 57% of medicaid to the states. You tell me where the states lose in the new medicaid rules.

The rat pack governors are screwing their states and the people by being horses asses. Women and children will suffer. The elderly and the poor will suffer, but by gawd those freakin governors can slap each other on the back about how they got back at Obama.