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Muslim Group's TN Forum With FBI Disrupted by Anti-Muslim "Free Speechers"

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Lidane6/05/2013 8:30:46 pm PDT

re: #98 Mattand

Speaking of Tennessee:

Anybody watching The Daily Show right now? Specifically, did you see the segment with Jessica Williams talking about Tennessee’s answer to Obamacare?

They’re holding a lottery. 2500 lucky residents out of 300,000 uninsured will be chosen to get health insurance. The rest can apparently go fuck themselves and die in a corner.

I shit you not.

Seriously, smoke a joint or have a stiff drink before you see this. If conservatives regain control of this country the way they did from 2001 to 2007, we’re done for.

It’s worse than a lottery. It’s basically health care by call-in contest:

Tennessee Race for Medicaid: Dial Fast and Try, Try Again

NASHVILLE — Two nights a year, Tennessee holds a health care lottery of sorts, giving the medically desperate a chance to get help.

.State residents who have high medical bills but would not normally qualify for Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor, can call a state phone line and request an application. But the window is tight — the line shuts down after 2,500 calls, typically within an hour — and the demand is so high that it is difficult to get through.

There are other hurdles, too. Applicants have to be elderly, blind, disabled or the “caretaker relative” of a child who qualifies for Medicaid, known here as TennCare. Their medical debt has to be high enough that if they paid it, their income would fall below a certain threshold. Not many people end up qualifying, but that does not stop thousands from trying.

Modern conservatism in action. Throw a few scraps to the poor and desperate and let the rest go fuck themselves.