They voted for Trump and now are surprised that they will lose Health Insurance

https://theintellectualist.co/in-kentucky-the-poor-voted-against-obamacare-to-hurt-those-who-were-even-poorer/

You’ll have to work hard to find any significant logic in the interviews Vox’s Sarah Kliff did with residents in Kentucky, who apparently voted for Donald Trump because they didn’t think he and the Republicans would really take away their health insurance.

He was, you may recall, the candidate promising to repeal Obamacare.

Democrats weren’t much interested in defending the health care law during the campaign and Kliff’s interviews reveal why. In 2016, down is up and up is down. And the voters were willing to play “chicken” on the issue.

Kathy Oller, in Corbin, KY., is one of those who voted for the president-elect.

“We all need it,” Oller told Kliff when she asked about the fact Trump and congressional Republicans had promised Obamacare repeal. “You can’t get rid of it.”

But she voted for Trump anyway because….

“I found with Trump, he says a lot of stuff,” she said. “I just think all politicians promise you everything and then we’ll see. It’s like when you get married — ‘Oh, honey, I won’t do this, oh, honey, I won’t do that.’”

Oller’s job? She signs people up for health care coverage.

Ruby Atkins, 59, brought up valid points. She can’t afford the $244 monthly premium and her $6,000 deductible is too high. She says her old insurance didn’t have a deductible and the co-pays were only $5.

But her new insurance provides free preventive care, which Atkins won’t use, Vox says.

But she skips mammograms and colonoscopies because she doesn’t think she’d have the money to pay for any follow-up care if the doctors did detect something.

Atkins says she only buys insurance as financial protection — “to keep from losing my house if something major happened,” she says. “But I’m not using it to go to the doctor. I’ve not used anything.”

The idea of preventive care, of course, is to prevent problems before they become the problems that can make you lose a house over medical expenses.

Atkins also says poor people get better coverage than she does.

“They can go to the emergency room for a headache,” she says. “They’re going to the doctor for pills, and that’s what they’re on.”

“They had a Christmas program. Some of the area programs would talk to teachers, and ask for a list of their poorest kids and get them clothes and toys and stuff. They’re not the ones who need help. They’re the ones getting the welfare and food stamps. I’m the one who is the working poor.”

“I really think Medicaid is good, but I’m really having a problem with the people that don’t want to work,” she said. “Us middle-class people are really, really upset about having to work constantly, and then these people are not responsible.”