Hahahahahanever fear Hillary has said she will step in and continue what Obama is doing and has done.
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it has been a smashing success for the rich, wall street, the military industrial complex, fags, women , illegals and corporate interests
the status quo is stronger than ever.
he has strengthened the establishment corporate democratic party.
actually on paper black people as a whole have gone backwards under Obama on every economic indicator except one.
Nothing but crabs in a Barrell. If you are even Black. Doubtful
We know that about 10 million more people have insurance coverage this year as a result of the Affordable Care Act. But until now it has been difficult to say much about who was getting that coverage — where they live, their age, their income and other such details.
Now a large set of data — from Enroll America, the group trying to sign up people for the program, and from the data firm Civis Analytics — is allowing a much clearer picture. The data shows that the law has done something rather unusual in the American economy this century: It has pushed back against inequality, essentially redistributing income — in the form of health insurance or insurance subsidies — to many of the groups that have fared poorly over the last few decades.
The biggest winners from the law include people between the ages of 18 and 34; blacks; Hispanics; and people who live in rural areas. The areas with the largest increases in the health insurance rate, for example, include rural Arkansas and Nevada; southern Texas; large swaths of New Mexico, Kentucky and West Virginia; and much of inland California and Oregon.
I guess healthcare isn't that important to you all. It's as if you were white and privileged...
Exactly, sometimes I wish John McCain and Palin would have won and McCain would have had a heart attack day one in office. Sometimes my brethren rather learn the hard way. So much stupid in this thread by cats that probably didn't vote in the first place. Anytime I hear someone say they are all the same I instantly know they are a dumb ignorant mofo.
look at this simple mofokr posting a it helped you too excuse but then lists states with small black populations......
shouldn't you be in Sunday School learning to praise white Jesus
so your response is some hypothetical that didn't happen to explain why Obama ignored black folks because he is president of everyone and in a hostile environment but that didn't stop his fight for fags, illegals, women and corporate America.
that is how you explain how wall street got bailed out but not the people who elected him who were stuck with upside-down mortgages or walking away ?
you talking about a what if while ignoring the what is
Scraps. Most of the people who benefit are from Rural areas. Who lives in rural areas? Mostly Poor Whites!!! Also, I see you bolden the black part of that sentence as if they were the main beneficiaries. You ain't fooling. Just cause blacks were the first group named in the sentence doesn't mean shit. They are lumped in with other groups which means no specific legislation to help blacks. When it comes to other groups, they never allow themselves to be grouped along with others. They always have a specific agenda for their group. Only negroes think being grouped along with others is a good thing.
You have no problem choosing to be some mindless slave.
I know reading comprehension isn't your strong trait.
It doesn't say Blacks living in rural areas moron. It says Blacks and people living in rural areas.
Your idiotic logic is because they said the biggest gains were in rural areas it didn't help Black people across the nation gain healthcare?
I'm not black?
But what can the president do with executive decisions?
Me and mine are doing great under my president where I was on the brink of losing my job under bush. You, Travis, and West are the worst type of brothers, so selfish, myopic, and full of criticism for the brother while meekly criticizing when the cac was in office. You are foolish and you don't even know it. You search the net all day looking for negative shit against Obama and there's a guarantee you would show up to shit on anything positive. Brother you need to check yourself.
Level of ignorance from you and Ballscout is astounding.
Because rural people who never had insurance gained the most doesn't take away from the fact the ACA helped a large portion of African Americans gained health insurance.
How the ACA is Working for African-Americans
- Last year, an estimated 6 in 10 uninsured African Americans qualified for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), or lower costs on monthly premiums through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
- Many shoppers found coverage for less than $50 a month and nearly 7 in 10 found coverage for less than $100.
- 7.8 million African Americans with private insurance now have access to preventive services like mammograms or flu shots with no co-pay or deductible
- More than 500,000 African American young adults between the ages of 19 and 26 who would have been uninsured now have coverage under their parents’ plan.
- 2.3 million African Americans (ages 18-64) gained health insurance coverage, lowering the uninsured rate among African Americans by 6.8 percentage points.
- If all states took advantage of new opportunities to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, 95 percent of eligible uninsured African Americans might qualify for Medicaid, CHIP, or programs to help lower the cost of health insurance coverage in the Marketplace.
5 Key Facts About the Affordable Care Act for African Americans
The federal and state health insurance marketplaces will be open for the second round of enrollment from November 15, 2014, to February 15, 2015. For information on how to enroll, visit www.HealthCare.gov. The Affordable Care Act, or ACA, has helped millions of uninsured Americans—especially African Americans—gain affordable, high-quality health care coverage. As enrollment for 2015 coverage begins, here are five facts to keep in mind about the effects of the ACA on the African American community.
- The Affordable Care Act has led to a significant drop in the number of African Americans who are uninsured. Health care reforms associated with the ACA reduced the percentage of uninsured African Americans from 24.1 percent to 16.1 percent between 2013 and 2014.
- The passage of the ACA has greatly expanded access to quality health care for the African American community. Nearly 6.8 million African Americans have become eligible for health coverage since the implementation of the ACA due to Medicaid expansion and the financial assistance available to qualified individuals.
- Increased funding for community health centers through the ACA will have a substantial impact on the African American community. The ACA has allocated approximately $11 billion to fund community health centers, enabling them to increase the number of patients they serve. Nearly 25 percent of these patients are African American.
- ACA provisions provide access to preventive care at no additional cost; this may help curtail African American health disparities. African Americans currently suffer from a litany of health disparities. For example, their infant mortality rate is 2.3 times higher than that of non-Hispanic whites. African American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than the larger U.S. population, even though they are less likely to develop the disease. Access to preventive care can help reduce this disparity, as earlier detection decreases the likelihood of death.
- African American women are eligible for additional insurance benefits, which can lead to better health outcomes. The ACA requires that close to 5 million African American women enrolled in private health insurance have access to HPV testing, mammograms, and prenatal care, among many other preventive services, at no additional out-of-pocket cost.
THE ACA'S IMPACT ON MINORITY HEALTH INSURANCE DISPARITIES
Numbers Show Improvements for Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans
"African Americans and Latinos are overrepresented among the uninsured population," Polsky noted. "So as the ACA insurance expansions reduce the number of uninsured, it will also be addressing racial inequities in coverage."
You act local like health care is something new when Obama got into office. Free and good health care been around long in this country before him so this isn't some new phenomenon. Heath care and education are easily attainable in this country. But All you can point to are these scraps. Negroe physche has been so fucked up where he worships scraps like a good little slave.
Milken Institute School of Public Health Hosts Labor Secretary
Tom Perez discusses the legacy of the Affordable Care Act and America’s “social compact 2.0.”
Mr. Perez said that the “untold story” of the ACA, includes decreasing health care costs and coverage for at-risk populations, including African Americans, Latinos and low-income Americans.
The legacy of the ACA
According to Mr. Perez, a partisan-backed marketing campaign has worked to cast the ACA as a “job killer” that infringes on the private health care insurance industry, but in reality the bill has created 14.5 million jobs.
“I can’t understand why so many folks want to make it so hard for people to get healthy and become taxpayers,” he said.
For example, Mr. Perez told the story of Ward, a man suffering with hepatitis B. Ward’s condition went untreated because his employer didn’t provide healthcare, and he couldn’t afford independent coverage. Subsequently, he lost his job.
On March 1, 2015, Ward signed up for the ACA health exchange at a rate of $45 per month and by March 15, he had received a liver transplant.
“As more and more people get coverage, the ACA will no longer be an abstract construct,” he said. “There will be an undeniable record that more people are receiving the care they need.”
However, the bill is not without its flaws, he stated, noting that it will be important to revisit the ACA and address areas that need improvement.
“I remember working on a hate crimes bill in 1996, and it was much less complicated, but even with that bill we had to go back and change a few things to make them more clear,” Mr. Perez said. “We need to do the same with the ACA.”
The ‘social compact 2.0’
Mr. Perez called the ACA the “greatest addition to the social compact since Medicare and Medicaid.” He explained the “social compact 2.0” as an insurance of equal protections and care for workers in a flexible economy.
For example, he cited the booming “sharing economy,” dominated by high growth startups such as Uber Inc. as proof that workers are trending toward more flexible work schedules. He added that recent cases in which customers with disabilities were denied access to Uber’s services, show that these companies need to practice “inclusive innovation.”
“Innovation that excludes people is problematic, and I’m not sure that I’m ready to call it innovation until they can make it work for everyone: their workers and every customer, including those with disabilities,” he said.
Mr. Perez added that equality is needed across the board for workers in terms of equal access and protection under the law, which requires action at every level of government.
For example, he said, the question of raising the minimum wage should not be a question. Since 1938 every U.S. president except two—Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan—has raised the minimum wage.
“You try living a week on seven and a quarter per hour and trying to feed your family,” he said. “You can’t do it.”
you just another cat who talks because they can but don't know what they are talking about.
i criticized cacs from day one...
I don't have to search the net. wtf are you talking about ?
on the brink of losing your job huh ? sounds good.
Bullshit
Now I know you are white.
Free and good healthcare like Medicaid huh? The free and good healthcare that almost no doctors accept. You are lucky to find a doctor in a 2 hour drive that accepts it.
Or are you talking about the emergency rooms? The emergency rooms that have an average wait time of 8 hours. The good healthcare if you are Black and in pain you are labeled a drug seeker and not given any service.
Or maybe you are talking about the free county health clinics. The ones you have to jump through hoops to get an appointment and then wait long hours. Once again to be treated like a drug seeker. Not entirely the staffs fault...they are always under staffed and have shitty doctors working.
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Lol this is the mentality that made it so that we never forced him to do anything... and after 8yrs you still spitting this nonsense.
among the dumbest political posts in the history of bgol.
How did Obama cause that?
You expected a lot....free state college and universal health care?...realistically, only one of those would have been possible (the failure is that neither one came to pass)...he is a politician not a revolutionary
For me, his talking down to Blacks locally and abroad in comparison to how he talks to others has grown tiresome...he put in some reform with the Financial system but it would have been nice to see some of the 2008 recession engineers go to jail (not just the non-white one)...he kept negotiating from an artificial position of weakness in his first term...his expansion of the drone program and others aspect of military interventionism runs counter to how he ran in 2008....he shares the blame for everything we criticize Hillary for e.g. Honduras and Libya....treatment of whistle blowers under his administration has been terrible...TPP completely undermines what has been a decent 2nd term and shows he clearly owes somebody something
By the standards of US presidents he has not been bad at all...especially recent US presidents....but that is a low standard when looked at from a progressive perspective
It's a republican talking point. Of course Ballscout will repeat it.
Any perceived set back for African Americans is caused by republicans first and foremost.
one of the main factors was the housing/real estate market.
when he bailed out the out corporate America he didn't bailout the people.
but that fact is if downward trends are not the fault of the president the upwards trends are not because of the president.
even though policy drives both
It helps to know who you are talking to.
Dude is from Boston so the ACA/Romneycare has been in Mass for years.
So is any perceived advancement also because of republicans ?
I notice that no matter how many times it comes up you stay away from your DNC leader.....
they won't see that mainly because they think Hillary is good to go.
and the financial reform was weak in theory and substance and that is why you see no jail sentences.
anything short of the return of glass/stegall is weak but they won't say anything about that because the great democrat Bill Clinton trashed that...They also don't see that was the start of the financial collapse.
they rest of the bolded is 100%
I wonder what else was part of the bill. I know they didn't pass a new law just for that.
ACA saved my life last year. 3-4 days in the hospital I ended up with a $4000 bill, but that's much better than the 15-20k it would have been otherwise. Since I maxed out those days for out of pocket, I didn't pay for doctors visits or prescriptions for the rest of the year.
I'm gonna wait and see how this plays out. Maybe it is just "scraps" that you guys believe it is. May be its a small piece to a puzzle he's trying to build. I don't know either way but i'm gonna wait before I knock him.
People expected Obama to be our savior. It was never going to happen. I expected more to be done for blacks with the same aggression he's done for other demo's but it wasn't realistic. You guys believe that they were going to let a black man run america and actually help blacks when he doesn't have to?
Its always going to be up to us. People want Obama to do all the work while they sit on their ass. Gotta get the fuck up and start demanding shit from politicians. Shit isn't gonna get handed to us because you "voted".
People expected Obama to be our savior. It was never going to happen. I expected more to be done for blacks with the same aggression he's done for other demo's but it wasn't realistic. You guys believe that they were going to let a black man run america and actually help blacks when he doesn't have to?
Its always going to be up to us. People want Obama to do all the work while they sit on their ass. Gotta get the fuck up and start demanding shit from politicians. Shit isn't gonna get handed to us because you "voted".
Y'all all voted for this nigga
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