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Obama plan hits blue states hardest
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In mounting an aggressive push toward universal health care, President Barack Obama is exposing one of the central ironies of offering insurance to all: The states most likely to profit are the ones that voted against him last November and whose congressional leaders are least likely to support it.

Red states across the South, which now offer limited benefits to low-income residents, stand to receive billions of dollars to cover large populations of uninsured citizens. Blue states in the North and Midwest, which are wealthier and already offer insurance to many, are likely to take a financial hit.

Obama may have been alluding to some of those divides when he predicted that geography could play a major role in the coming health care fight. "Some of the issues surrounding health care -- the way it cuts isn't even going to be Democratic/Republican," Obama said in a little-­noticed aside at a White House fiscal summit last week. "There may be regional differences. There may be a whole host of other differences," he added.
Posted by: Beavis 2009-03-11
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