"How Mike Pence used Obamacare to halt Indiana's HIV outbreak"

[lowkey0z]

How Mike Pence used Obamacare to halt Indiana's HIV outbreak

When then-Gov. Mike Pence faced the worst public health crisis to hit Indiana in decades, he turned to Obamacare — a program he vilified and voted against.

In 2015, as a rash of HIV infections spread through rural southern Indiana, state health officials parachuted into Scott County and enrolled scores of people into Obamacare's expanded Medicaid program so they could get medical care and substance abuse treatment. Many were addicted to opioids and had contracted HIV by sharing dirty needles.


Two years later, Pence is helping to lead the Republican effort to dismantle the program that helped him halt the deadly outbreak in an impoverished swathe of Indiana.

"These are good salt-of-the-earth folks who got caught up in a disaster. Not funding this would be like removing sandbags during a flood,” said Blake Johnson, who helps people in Scott County enroll in health coverage on behalf of Covering Kids & Families of Indiana, a nonprofit patient group.

In 2015, as a rash of HIV infections spread through rural southern Indiana, state health officials parachuted into Scott County and enrolled scores of people into Obamacare's expanded Medicaid program so they could get medical care and substance abuse treatment. Many were addicted to opioids and had contracted HIV by sharing dirty needles.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Fukk em

They can cry to their Cheeto gawd.

 

[TRFG]

Well, they claim there are not Americans so not entitled to American benefits

 

[AintNoCrampInYaMouthTho]

I can't take conservatives seriously. shyt politics for that matter...

 

[Champagne Kudo]

Fukk em

They can cry to their Cheeto gawd.

 

[Mr swag]

Fake News

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Let them remove Obamacare. Let them try. They can't even get that right.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

He only did it because didn't he fukk with Planned Parenthoods funding or some shyt and in the year afterwards, HIV cases exploded by 38% ?

 

[AtomicUse]

Indiana.
When my wife came out of medical school she said most of the research they did on HIV supported the fact that drug usage being the primary transmitter, and people in rural areas that did meth/heroin shared needles. She works as a physician here in Chicago and tells me how most of the cases she hears about are people coming up from west Indiana and central/southern Illinois for treatment.