Primary tactics the GOP’s has been using to block Obamacare: 1) Rejected federal funds to expand the state’s Medicaid programs. 2) Let the federal government set up and operate the state health exchange (a kind of eBay for buying insurance). 3) Told young people not to sign up for insurance. 4) Tied up funding for the federal government’s Web site on Obamacare. 5) Thrown roadblocks in the way of organizations providing “navigators” to assist the elderly, disabled, or the confused with enrolling in Obamacare similar to help now given to senior citizens for enrolling in Medicare. “This kind of obstructionism has been seen before. After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954, Virginia shut down schools in Charlottesville, Norfolk, and Warren County rather than accept black children in white schools. When the courts forced the schools to open, the governor followed a number of other Southern states in instituting hurdles such as ‘pupil placement’ reviews, ‘freedom of choice’ plans that provided nothing of the sort, and incessant legal delays.” “Conservatives keep hoping that they can drive the system to collapse. That won’t happen. Enough people, states, and health-care interests are committed to making it work, just as the Massachusetts version has for the past seven years. And people now have a straightforward way to resist the forces of obstruction: sign up for coverage, if they don’t have it, and help others do so as well.”
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:13:05 +0000
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