1. Vulnerabilidad Desproporcionada de los Estados Rojos.
El análisis del archivo revela una preocupación generalizada de que los recortes federales a Medicaid afectarán de manera más severa a los estados controlados por republicanos. Estos estados, a menudo denominados "taker states" (estados receptores), dependen en mayor medida de los fondos federales para programas sociales, incluyendo Medicaid y SNAP, y carecen de la base impositiva necesaria para cubrir los déficits resultantes.
- It will actually hurt red states the most because red states have the highest numbers of medicaid and snap recipients.
- Red states have a much higher percentage of medicaid recipients than blue states.
- The really dumbfounding part is losing medicaid will hurt the poor red states much more than the well-off blue states. Talk about massacuring your own base.
- 50 of medicaid recipients live in red states!
2. La Paradoja Política y el Voto en Contra del Interés Propio.
Existe una fuerte crítica a los votantes de los estados rojos por apoyar a políticos que promueven recortes a programas de los que sus propios electores dependen. Esta contradicción se percibe como un acto de "dispararse en el pie" o un resultado de la desinformación, donde los votantes priorizan la ideología o el deseo de "owning the libs" sobre su bienestar económico y de salud.
- Can someone please explain to me why the red states are upset about losing their medicaid? isnt that what they voted for? i just dont understand??
- Poor red states voters and poor rural voters voted to have their medicaid stripped away as well as their snap benefits and fema aid for all their weather disasters. This is what they want.
- The majority of the people in red states who are on medicaid are white trump supporters. Fafo season is upon us.
- Red states are by a large margin the biggest recipients of medicaid. When you want the republicans who represent you to vote against your own wellbeing, there is a very serious problem.
3. Estrategias de Mitigación de los Estados Azules.
Ante la inminente reducción de fondos federales, los estados demócratas, a menudo considerados "donor states" (estados contribuyentes netos), están debatiendo la posibilidad de retener sus impuestos federales para financiar directamente sus propios programas de Medicaid, SNAP y otros servicios. Esta acción se propone como una defensa contra la política federal y una forma de dejar que los estados rojos asuman las consecuencias de sus decisiones electorales.
- Blue states should hold on to their tax dollars.cause they have to pay for the medicaid themselves.
- Hey blue states that provide federal funding for poor red states. I think its past time to withhold our federal taxes in each state so we can take care of our own.
- How about if this orange shit-gibbon gets his bill passed, ny and ca and whatever other blue state withholds federal taxes to cover medicaid and other program cuts.
- Blue states need to massively tax the rich. Exactly recoup the tax giveaways they just got from the feds. Use it to backfill snap, medicaid, and lost science funding, at the state level.
4. Medicaid como Herramienta de Castigo Político.
Los recortes y las nuevas regulaciones federales son interpretados como un intento deliberado de castigar a los estados que expandieron Medicaid bajo el Affordable Care Act (ACA). Además, se reportan acuerdos y "carve outs" (exenciones especiales) para ciertos estados rojos, lo que agrava la percepción de que la política de salud se está utilizando para fines partidistas, mientras que la negativa histórica de los estados rojos a expandir Medicaid ya ha dejado a millones sin cobertura.
- Red states that refuse to expand medicaid because its part of the evil obamacare are gonna be hurt badly. Spite is an unhealthy way to live.
- So basically, as predicted, red states will get special carve outs for medicaid and rural hospitals. Blue states endure the entire cuts.
- Gop lawmakers in 10 states have resisted expanding medicaid under the affordable care act for a decade.
- The goal, i think, is to get states to say, well, were not getting the federal money support, and so were going to roll back or undo our expansion of medicaid, hoffman said.