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Did you not learn anything about the link I posted on the previous page?

Read it again because it didn't stick in your brain.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-uninsured-poor-adults-in-states-that-do-not-expand-medicaid/

Now take 30 hours and multiply it by the minimum wage and you'll get around ~10k annually. And in states like Texas that do not expand Medicaid such a person gets zero subsidies. That's the issue. In states that do expand Medicaid there is no problem because Medicaid will cover those people. It's only primarily Republican states who only want poor people to suffer that have that problem. And the hilarious thing is, it's fiscally irresponsible since Medicaid is so much cheaper than the alternative, which is county taxpayers paying for all the emergency room visit by the uninsured. So I'm pretty sure it's only out of spite rather than any fiscal rational that this coverage gap exists.

Last edited by Megiddo - on 15 August 2018