Obamacare is rolling forward, with various deadlines arriving and approaching.
But an AP story this morning details the continued opposition from the states of the old Confederacy, a kind of simmering medical civil war against widening Medicaid in the part of the country that needs it most. Some of the opposition is surely political.
The AP story doesn't mention Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, a doctor, but he's also insisting this state will stand firm in refusing to provide the expanded insurance for the poor. His argument seems to be mostly economic, even thought he Feds would pay for the majority of the expansion in the initial years.
I've wondered if Bentley's opposition is formed because of, or in spite of, his medical degree. He built the largest dermatology practice in Tuscaloosa and then sold it. He's told me he never turned down a patient who could not afford to pay, though he also did not have a huge sign outside his practice announcing that policy either.
Republicans pledged they would undo Obamacare when they won the White House and The Senate in the last election. With that goal unmet, the most GOP of the states continue their opposition.
[UPDATE: An AP story about the marketing of Obamacare by the Administration]
But an AP story this morning details the continued opposition from the states of the old Confederacy, a kind of simmering medical civil war against widening Medicaid in the part of the country that needs it most. Some of the opposition is surely political.
"It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now..."
(A S.C. lawmaker)
The AP story doesn't mention Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, a doctor, but he's also insisting this state will stand firm in refusing to provide the expanded insurance for the poor. His argument seems to be mostly economic, even thought he Feds would pay for the majority of the expansion in the initial years.
I've wondered if Bentley's opposition is formed because of, or in spite of, his medical degree. He built the largest dermatology practice in Tuscaloosa and then sold it. He's told me he never turned down a patient who could not afford to pay, though he also did not have a huge sign outside his practice announcing that policy either.
Republicans pledged they would undo Obamacare when they won the White House and The Senate in the last election. With that goal unmet, the most GOP of the states continue their opposition.
[UPDATE: An AP story about the marketing of Obamacare by the Administration]
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