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Home Front: Politix
Obama plan hits blue states hardest
2009-03-11
Yes, we have a Sympathy Meter ...
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

#6  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.

And if you wanted to ruin or turn a 'red state', what better way to do it than this?
Posted by: Pappy   2009-03-11 22:08  

#5  TOPIX > ALAN REYNOLDS: IS CAPITALISM DEAD? YES. [USA steadily drifting towards SOCIALISM]/IS THIS CAPITALISM - NO, IT ISN'T CAPITALISM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-11 19:30  

#4  Oxymoron alert. Obama+Plan= Null.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-03-11 14:24  

#3  We've Sympathy meter at 'Burg?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-03-11 14:20  

#2  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.

And he'll fix this by making a big chunk of the program an unfunded mandate, leading to tax hikes in those states.

So far, the pharmaceutical industry is on board with the reform effort, but if drug companies become the targets for price caps or similar efforts

These people are idiots. If this goes through, their profits will splash. Hard.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2009-03-11 14:19  

#1  Obama plan hits blue states hardest

Sympathy meter please.
Posted by: Besoeker    2009-03-11 13:23  

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