HuffPost : The Old Confederacy against ObamaCare : Many public health studies show that this population that will be left out of Health insurance suffers from higher-than-average rates of obesity, smoking and diabetes – variables that yield bad health outcomes and expensive hospital care

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My View : Racism is an important factor in this Confrontation, and also Business, Hospital Associations, Health Care Professionals, Chambers of Commerce and many City Councils are for the Medicaid Expansion. Republican Governors fell in a trap baited for them by the Republican biased U. S. Supreme Court.

HuffPost Article, By Bill Barrow, Excerpts :

The Governors from the South that oppose Medicaid Expansion lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states.

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"Many of the citizens who would benefit the most from this live in the reddest of states with the most intense opposition," said Drew Altman, president of the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

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The Supreme Court ruling creates a scenario where hospitals can lose existing revenue without getting the replacement cash Congress intended, all while still having to treat the uninsured patients who can't get coverage.

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Huffington Post
Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South
By Bill Barrow
March 30, 2013

Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South

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