wtf is going on in Oklahoma, Missouri, Maine, North Carolina, Indiana, etc? Expand Medicaid and still be in the red for medical debt 🤨
We voted to expand it but our Governor hates Missourians so they aren’t doing anything with the $$
Cool cool cool.
How is this legal lol
some red? I don’t understand. Do you think the expanded medicaid is a cure all? Its not universal healthcare it just reduces the red from where you see it in the intense red areas.
A lot of red! Look at Oklahoma! Or Missouri!
California is some red. One red county, fine.
More than a dozen? Something is seriously wrong in these states and I want to know why Medicaid expansion didn’t fix it. There’s an explaination, don’t just handwave it away.
Now that you reduced it to two outliers fair enough. Apparently in only helps in something like 96% of cases. To repeat. Its not a cure all. Just an improvment.
🙄 I just didn’t feel like retyping. Look at North Carolina and Nevada. They’re so bad!
I got an answer for Missouri by the way, it’s because the Republican governor won’t implement the Medicaid expansion that the people vote for - that’s the kind of answer I want. Stop handwaving the problem and actually critically engage with it.
Its not handwaving. Your just asking for things way outside of what the data shows. Yeah could be implementation as there are better and worse ways to do it, but it could also be what the rest of the states healthcare system is like. North carolina im not so sure is super red. Maybe my map knowledge is off but nevada looks a bit regional. Its possible gambling and general debt could be effecting it. It could be all sorts of things. This picturejust shows that in general expanding medicaid seems to correlate with less medical debt.
Yes, I’m asking for additional context to understand the data in the picture. Duh?
Thats fine. Im not sure how many or if any studies may have been done but I certainly have no links to any for that type of inquiry. I am skeptical that anyone could give you more than a guess answer.
Oklahoma expanded Medicaid in 2020. Most of these states expended it over a decade ago. A lot of debt buildup occurred in that time. Not sure about the other indebted states but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were similar
Oh fk the Medicaid expansion didn’t come with debt relief, of course, I guess I forgot what country this is 😒
Texas deserves what it gets honestly. These people know what the issue is but keep voting against their own interest over and over
Except there are a ton of people in those States that don’t vote against their interests and are gerrymandered out of winning
Texas is not those states. Texas is deep red and always has been. Sure you can use that argument with swing states, but Texans would vote for a cannibal serial killer if he had a R in front of his name.
Even after the massacre of their children, Uvalde county overwhelmingly voted Abbott, and reelected all the judges and sheriffs who did nothing while their kids died. Clearly Texans don’t even care about their kids or state, so why should I? They get what they vote for and my sympathy is at an end
There’s a lot of people that don’t vote because they think it’s pointless to vote against Republicans in a red state, creating a self fulfilling prophecy.
