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Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 18th, 2014
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More of the same tactics of denying Americans health care coverage, from the same conservatives.
Billions and Billions Wasted
Conservative States Rejecting Medicaid Expansion Are Sacrificing Billions of Dollars And Leaving Millions Uninsured
The fight over Medicaid expansion continues, with 24 conservative states still refusing to expand health care to low-income working residents simply because of politics. As we have documented before, these political games have real consequences: Charlene Dill, a 32-year-old working mom with three small children, died in late March because she fell into Florida’s Medicaid coverage gap and wasn’t able to access the care she needed.
A new report from the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details the scope of these consequences in the number of people going without insurance and the economic losses to states. Both of these outcomes are the result of conservative lawmakers’ decision to reject federal funds to expand health care in their states. Here are the key findings, by the numbers:
- 6.7 million: The number of residents that would have been eligible for affordable coverage projected to remain uninsured in the 24 states that have not expanded Medicaid.
- $423.6 billion: The amount of money that states are sacrificing in federal Medicaid funds from 2013-2022. These are billions that would not only go to help make sure people have the health care that they need, they would also heighten economic activity and spur job growth in the states.
- $167.8 billion: Amount of money from additional Medicaid funding that hospitals in these 24 states are projected to lose. This funding was intended to offset cuts the Affordable Care Act made to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates: more people covered could mean lower rates. But without the bigger pool of insured residents through Medicaid expansion, hospitals lose out big time. Some hospitals, especially in rural areas, are evenbeing forced to shutter their doors.
- 32.3 percent: The increase in Medicaid payments that hospitals in non-expansion states would see in 2016 if these states decided to go ahead with Medicaid expansion.
- $13.41: The amount of federal funds, for every $1 the state invests, that would flow into these 24 states if they chose to go forward with Medicaid expansion. The study projects that states would have to pay a combined $31.6 billion and receive $423.6 billion from the federal government. The report also mentions that even these costs to the state would be offset: “Every comprehensive state-level budget analysis of which we know found that expansion helps state budgets, because it generates state savings and additional revenues that exceed increased Medicaid costs.”
- 38 percent: How much the uninsured rate has dropped in states that have expanded Medicaid since September 2013, from 16.2 to 10.1 percent.
- 9 percent: How much the uninsured rate has dropped in states that have refused to expand Medicaid since September 2013, from 20.0 to 18.3 percent.
BOTTOM LINE: The latest analysis underscores why conservative lawmakers need to put people over politics and expand Medicaid in their states. By denying health care to low-income working people, they are only hurting their citizens and their state economies.
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August 18th, 2014 at 11:42 am
The Ferguson cops think they have the scenario to present to the public to get Wilson off.
Here is there narrative: But first the set up. Wilson didn’t tell his chief of police this story. He supposedly told a friend who just happens to be in the media.
Keep in mind while you hear this story that when a cop fires his/her weapon while on duty they have to file a written report describing what happened and the Chief of police, his boss would have been privy to that report .
His story is that he saw the two men walking in the middle of the street and he called for back up. (Why he hadn’t confronted them yet. If they had cleared the street as ordered the back-up call would have been needless.
Then he says during the back-up call he was told about the robbery. [that differs from the Police Chief's version who we know would have had his report to read. The Chief said that Wilson didn't know about the robbery and if he got a clue it must have been from seeing the cigars]
Then Wilson says Brown approached the car and punched him in the face. Wilson says he then reached for his gun and Brown tried to take it from him and it went off during the scuffle.
Brown and his companion ran off and Wilson got out of the car to pursue them.
Then Brown turned around and charged a man with a gun and Wilson said he was force to shoot him. He said that when finished shooting Brown fell about three feet in front of him.
So we are to believe he kill this charging bull and he was stopped a few feet in front of him. That probably explains why they let Brown bleed out for hours before they called in medical help.
I guess Brown was charging Wilson with his head facing the ground and that explains why one of the head shots was in the top of his head.
The autopsy will put the lie to this scenario. But many whites will be doing mental contortions to accept this lie.
The reason they waited so long was to see if anyone had videoed the event. With no video record of the event the cop can now tell any lie he wishes.
August 18th, 2014 at 11:59 am
Robert I, you were correct about the autopsy putting the lie to that bullshit story. http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/18/us/missouri-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — An autopsy conducted for the family of Michael Brown found no evidence that he struggled with a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer before his death, the pathologist in charge of the examination said Monday.
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“Why would he be shot in the very top of his head, a 6-foot-4 man?” Parks asked. “Makes no sense.”
August 18th, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Robert I#1, You are definitely on point. This was murder and it is embarrassing the number of whites who want to believe otherwise. It makes this white man wonder if O.J. was innocent.
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According to the account on KTFK, phoned in by a woman who identified herself as “Josie,” the altercation began after Officer Darren Wilson rolled down his window to tell Brown and a friend to stop walking in the street.
When Wilson tried to get out of his cruiser, Brown first tried to push the officer back into the car, then punched him in the face and grabbed for his gun before breaking free after the gun went off once.
Wilson pursued Brown and his friend, ordering them to freeze, according to account. When they turned around, Brown began taunting Wilson, saying he would not arrest them, then ran at the officer at full speed, according to the caller.
Wilson then began shooting. The final shot was to Brown’s forehead, and the teenager fell two or three feet in front of Wilson, the caller said.
The account matches Wilson’s telling of events to investigators, according to the source.
If true, the account represents the first telling of events from the perspective of Wilson, whose shooting of Brown has touched off nightly protests and violence in the suburban St. Louis city.
Earlier Monday, an autopsy conducted for the family of Brown found no evidence that he struggled with Wilson before his death, the pathologist in charge of the examination said Monday.
Dr. Michael Baden said no signs of a struggle were revealed in his autopsy of Brown’s body, conducted after an official examination by the St. Louis County medical examiner’s office.
And forensics consultant Shawn Parcells, who assisted Baden, said the findings are consistent with witness reports that Brown may have been shot as he walked away and that he was shot again with his hands up.
Brown family attorney Daryl Parks said he was particularly concerned about gunshots that medical examiners hired by the family indicate came from behind and above.
“Why would he be shot in the very top of his head, a 6-foot-4 man?” Parks asked. “Makes no sense.”
The protests have also gained international attention. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement Monday on the events in Ferguson, saying that he “hopes local and federal investigations will shed full light on the killing” of Brown. Ban called on authorities to ensure that people are able to assemble peacefully and urged law enforcement to abide by U.S. and “international standards in dealing with demonstrations.”
Autopsy findings
The family autopsy found that Brown was shot at least six times, including two shots to his head. Three of the bullets may have re-entered his body, causing additional damage, Baden said.
One wound to his arm was consistent with a witness statement that Brown was walking away and appeared to jerk, as if shot, Parcells said. The wounds to his arm could have also have occurred while he had his hands up, possibly in a defensive posture, Parcells said.
One of the bullets entered the back of his head and came out through his eye; another — likely the fatal wound, Baden said — struck Brown on the top of his head and caused irreparable damage to his brain.
Family attorney Benjamin Crump said Brown probably would have been either kneeling or bending forward when he was struck with those bullets.
Brown had abrasions on his face consistent with falling onto the ground, Baden said.
He cautioned that he needs access to autopsy results, including tests on Brown’s clothes and X-rays, before making some conclusions.
But Crump said what it already revealed offered more than “ample” evidence to support Wilson’s arrest.
“What does this autopsy say? That the witness accounts were true, that he was shot multiple times,” Crump told reporters.
Dueling narratives
Accounts of exactly what happened when Wilson stopped Brown while the teen was walking down a street vary widely.
Witnesses said they saw a scuffle between the officer and Brown at the police car before the young man was shot.
Several witnesses said Brown raised his hands and was not attacking the officer.
Piaget Crenshaw said she was sitting in her home when she witnessed the shooting. She captured video of the aftermath, including images of Brown’s body lying in the middle of the street.
“From it all initially happening, I knew this was not right,” she told CNN’s “New Day” on Monday.
“I knew the police shouldn’t even have been chasing this young boy and firing at the same time. The fact that he got shot in the face, it was something that clicked in me, like no, somebody else needs to see this. This isn’t right. I’ve got to record.”
Crenshaw said Brown was running away from police and then turned around. She said that was when Brown was shot.
But police gave a different narrative, saying Brown struggled with the officer and reached for his weapon.
The officer has stayed out of the public spotlight, and more than 22,000 people have endorsed the “I Support Officer Wilson” Facebook page.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has approved another autopsy on Brown’s body, the Justice Department said. That autopsy will be conducted by a federal medical examiner.
August 18th, 2014 at 1:56 pm
One of the bullets shattered Mr. Brown’s right eye, traveled through his face, exited his jaw and re-entered his collarbone. The last two shots in the head would have stopped him in his tracks and were likely the last fired.
He stressed that his examination was not to determine whether the shooting was justified.
“In my capacity as the forensic examiner for the New York State Police, I would say, ‘You’re not supposed to shoot so many times,’ ” said Dr. Baden, who retired from the state police in 2011. “Right now there is too little information to forensically reconstruct the shooting.”
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In my opinion, Officer Wilson intended to kill Brown.
August 18th, 2014 at 2:07 pm
At 12:01 p.m., they were stopped by Darren Wilson, a police officer, who ordered them off the road and onto the sidewalk, Mr. Johnson, who is 22, later said.
The police have said that what happened next was a physical struggle between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson that left the officer with a swollen face. Mr. Johnson and others have said that it was a case of racial profiling and police aggression from a white officer toward a black man. Within minutes, Mr. Brown, who was unarmed, was dead of gunshot wounds.
The sequence of events provided by law enforcement officials places Mr. Brown and Mr. Johnson at Ferguson Market and Liquors, a store several blocks away on West Florissant Ave., at about 11:50 a.m. After leaving the store with the cigarillos, the two walked north on West Florissant, a busy commercial thoroughfare, toward Canfield Drive, a clerk reported to the police.
Mr. Brown was a big man at 6-foot-4 and 292 pounds, though his family and friends described him as quiet and shy, a homebody who lived with his grandmother.
It is about a 10-minute walk from Ferguson Market to the spot where Officer Wilson, 28, with six years’ experience, approached Mr. Brown and Mr. Johnson.
The police tell of an officer who was enforcing the minor violation of jaywalking, as Mr. Brown and Mr. Johnson ignored the sidewalk and strolled down the middle of the road instead.
The morning after the shooting, Chief Jon Belmar of the St. Louis County police said that Officer Wilson was leaving his police car when Mr. Brown “allegedly pushed the police officer back into the car,” where he “physically assaulted the police officer.”
“Within the police car there was a struggle over the officer’s weapon,” Chief Belmar said. “There was at least one shot fired in the car.” At that point, the police said, Officer Wilson left his vehicle and fatally shot Mr. Brown. “More than a few” shell casings were recovered from the scene.
Mr. Johnson, who declined to be interviewed, has described the events differently in television interviews. While he and Mr. Brown walked, he said, Officer Wilson stopped his vehicle and told them to get on the sidewalk. When they refused, Officer Wilson slammed on his brakes and drove in reverse to get closer.
When the officer opened his door, it hit Mr. Brown. With his left hand, Officer Wilson reached out and grabbed Mr. Brown by the neck, Mr. Johnson said.
“It’s like tug-of-war,” Mr. Johnson said. “He’s trying to pull him in. He’s pulling away, that’s when I heard, ‘I’m gonna shoot you.’ ”
A witness, Tiffany Mitchell, said in an interview with MSNBC{http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word-with-lawrence-odonnell/watch/eyewitness-to-brown-shooting-tells-her-story-318326851993} that she heard tires squeal, then saw Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson “wrestling” through the open car window. A shot went off from within the car, Mr. Johnson said, and the two began to run away from the officer.
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According to Ms. Mitchell, “The officer gets out of his vehicle,” she said, pursuing Mr. Brown, then continued to shoot.
Mr. Johnson said that he hid behind a parked car and that Mr. Brown was struck by a bullet in his back as he ran away, an account that Dr. Baden’s autopsy appears to contradict.
“Michael’s body jerks as if he was hit,” Ms. Mitchell said, “and then he put his hands up.” Mr. Brown turned, Mr. Johnson said, raised his hands, and said, “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!”
Officer Wilson continued to fire and Mr. Brown crumpled to the ground, Mr. Johnson said. Within seconds, confusion and horror swept through Canfield Drive. On that Saturday afternoon, dozens of neighbors were at home and rushed out of their apartments when they heard gunshots.
One person who claimed to witness the shooting began posting frantic messages on Twitter, written hastily with shorthand and grammatical errors, only two minutes after Officer Wilson approached Mr. Brown. At 12:03 p.m., the person, identified as @TheePharoah, a St. Louis-area rapper, wrote on Twitter that he had just seen someone die.
That same minute, he wrote, “Im about to hyperventilate.”
At 12:23 p.m., he wrote, “dude was running and the cops just saw him. I saw him die bruh.”
A 10-minute video{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdL9dqkyjhM} posted on YouTube appeared to be taken on a cellphone by someone who identified himself as a neighbor. The video, which has collected more than 225,000 views, captures Mr. Brown’s body, the yellow police tape that marked off the crime scene and the residents standing behind it.
“They shot that boy ’cause they wanted to,” said one woman who can be heard on the video.
“They said he had his hands up and everything,” said the man taking the video, speaking to a neighbor.
Mr. Brown’s body remained in the street for several hours, a delay that Chief Jackson said last week made him “uncomfortable.” Antonio French, a St. Louis alderman who has been active in this case, said on ABC on Sunday that the body had remained in the street for nearly five hours.
At one point, a woman can be heard shouting, “Where is the ambulance? Where is the ambulance?” The man taking the video, who remained off-camera, said, “God rest his soul. He’s gone.”
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C’mon white folks admit that if this was a white victim allowed to remain on the ground without receiving any medical attention for 4 plus hours, you would be up in arms.
August 18th, 2014 at 2:08 pm
I hear the police force in Ferguson has 53 cops. How about ensuring that 27-28 of them are black? They could start recruiting and training tomorrow.
I’d bet that would change the whole tone of police enforcement in Ferguson.
And for an added benefit, they could send some of the those hyper-powered weapons, camouflage suits and helmets back where they came from.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:11 pm
We can only pray the truth comes out and shames the rioters, the media, the agitators and race baitors. Those who have been condemning this officer from the git go may in the end be very sorry for what they’ve done but then again thats assuming one lives in a normal world.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Truth did come out… The left just won’t accept it. Because mamma’s “poor baby” was on his way to church and never hurt anyone (sarc)
Truth is irrelevant to those looking through the glasses of race.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:19 pm
George#7..don’t waste your time…those sociopaths in Ferguson and their enablers have no shame or remorse. If they could lynch the cop they’d have done so already then carried on looting.
There’s to muh money to be made by keeping ignorant black people angry at someone white.
They’re merely partying at this point not protesting.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:19 pm
It’s too late for the truth to matter. Obama, Holder and the Feds are running the case. The officer, no matter how innocent, will be burned at the stake to appease a voting demographic that’s been lost.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:19 pm
I believed the cop’s version from the git go. I grew up here in Saint Louis. I know how the blacks around here behave. Trust me on this.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:20 pm
That narrative seems to match at least the evidence we have so far. More and more the evidence points to that this is a justified shooting.
As it would be with a private citizen. However, none of that will matter as he has already been convicted. If he survives a State trial, they will try him in a federal court as well.
No evidence, not even if we had video of the attack would satisfy the mob at this point other than a lynching or guilty verdict, truth be damned. Then niggars are out for blood.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:22 pm
George#7, The truth came out about Zimmerman when overwhelming evidence showed he acted in self defense to save his life, when he was acquitted by a jury, but it did not matter to those who from the very beginning without any evidence had in their minds convicted Zimmerman.
So I absolutely do not believe if any of those who are condemning the officer now are proven wrong later that they would have any regret. It is a sad commentary, but all too true based on past incidents. Also look at the Twanda Brawley incident–did Sharpton ever apologize? Or the Jewish merchant? Nope.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:25 pm
My fear is this goes to trial and the cop is aquited and then the real riots start.
They invested to much in the “Hands up don’t shoot” mantra that they are not going to let it go even when the truth comes out.
I live in St louis county and fear this could spread if Wilson is charged and then acquitted (even more so if never charged). Showing fear to these animals just makes them bolder.
We need the police to take charge and get the National Guard to come in to back them up. Whip some black ass and they will go back to their caves.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:26 pm
I believe I’ll just wait for ABC to produce the audio of the radio call that Officer Wilson made calling for backup. THEN we will have the truth.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:28 pm
There is no reasoning with hate. Don’t even waste your breath. Like Communism these blacks only know strength.
Turn the power of the Law on them. Bring back the dogs and the ropes. Hang a few of the agitators and the rest of the animals will head home with their tails between their legs.
August 18th, 2014 at 3:29 pm
if he tried to grab the gun while in the car, why was he not shot until well away from the vehicle?
August 18th, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Blacks are being trained by their piers to make fun of educated people. (God forbid you be SMART)
Blacks are being trained that it makes no sense to work when money appears in your mailbox once a month. (People who work for a living are STUPID)
Blacks are being trained to remain ignorant and poor by their superiors (like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson) because a NEEDY black can be USED as PROPS (Poor me – Poor me)
Blacks are being trained that the gangster life is an attractive one. (It’s easier to make money selling dope than it is to stay in school)
Blacks are being trained that they DONT need to listen to authority because they are taught to be VICTIMS of society. (Poor me – Poor me!!!!)
BLACK SOCIETY is to blame for this kid getting shot because he CHARGED at the policeman because his life meant so little to him and his VICTIM MENTALITY said – “Charge that cop – he can’t do anything to you because you have a RIGHT to push people around – steal cigars – and take what you want” —
And THAT type of attitude got this kid killed.
YOU LEFTISTS – YOU DEMOCRATS – YOU PROGRESSIVES — YOU ARE ALSO to blame for all your “programs” that are meant to HELP — that have taken away HONOR and INTEGRITY. You have given America a cancer of the soul.
AND THE MEDIA is to blame for continually sticking a microphone under RACE BATERS like AL SHARPTON for the sole purpose of RATINGS. They PERPETUATE the VICTIM MENTALITY
Well —You got your ratings and the world burns.
Happy now?
August 18th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
I guess the nigger found out that smoking can be hazardous to your health.
August 18th, 2014 at 4:23 pm
We have a culture that’s afraid to speak up against this predominantly black uprising in Ferguson because the culture has been trained not to speak up when black people are involved. This is what happens when liberals create protected classes. They become cultural treasures that are beyond criticism or scrutiny.
So these savages can carry on turning Ferguson into downtown Mogadishu and the somnambulisttic cutlure that’s used to be being led around by the nose by liberal mouthpieces shuts up and instinctively believes that a young black man is incapable of being the aggressor…surely he was being oppressed, targeted or singled out for merely being black?
Look at the extraordinary lenghts the governor of Missouri (a democrat) has gone to pander to these savages and they repay his “thoughtfullness” with more rioting and looting. That’s how the culture has been trained to think now, black people are not capable of doing anything wrong..they are precious..if they do step out of line it’s because a white person is to blame in some way.
August 18th, 2014 at 7:50 pm
The problem with this supposed report to a friend is that when a police officer discharges his weapon while on duty he is required to submit a written account of the event within 24 hours of the occurrence. That would mean that the Chief of Police of Ferguson would have had his account before he made all those contradicting statements to the press about what occurred.
None of officer Wilson’s account was verified by his boss, the Chief. So who or what are we to believe: his friend, or what he is supposed to have told his friend (if it disagrees with the autopsy report, we will hear that the friend made a mistake), his boss the Chief, or what he is supposed to have said to his Chief?
Why all the secrecy? Why wasn’t they up front about the facts, and the autopsy? The looting and the color of the participants aside. The fact is the Ferguson police department were the only ones in possession of the facts initially, and they chose to keep them from the public.
Since when does the suspect get to keep his identity secret and the victim get to lie in the street for hours before any medical attention is brought to him?
Why did the Ferguson’s police response to their town’s uprising require them to don camouflage clothing, and to bring out automatic weapons normally used to put down an up rising in a third world country? And why were those weapons being pointed directly at the citizens of their town?
When will the official Ferguson police autopsy be released?
August 18th, 2014 at 8:01 pm
Wow! The racists are always just beneath the surface. Slime ready to ooze out at the right moment.
August 18th, 2014 at 8:03 pm
Alvin, you and the rest of your racist ilk don’t seem to be afraid to speak out on this blog. So where is all this fear of blacks hiding?
August 18th, 2014 at 8:06 pm
Eric#18, – “Blacks are being trained by their piers to make fun of educated people. (God forbid you be SMART)”
You mean like “the educated people” who spell peers, piers? I could be tempted to make fun of them too.
August 18th, 2014 at 8:08 pm
Todd#16, the days when OTWs had to meekly submit to the aggression of white men are over. So if that is your plan, bring your lunch.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:48 pm
Alycedale, I’m with you … I can understand a typo or even a grammatical you’re/yours but piers/peers, Eric, No, just NO.
This victim was unarmed … the cop put many bullets into him, shooting to kill for walking in the middle of the road is wayyyy out of order, don’t care if he robbed a convenience store or not or if the cop knew that info or not, you don’t shoot unarmed people, period.
Howie, an off question for you, I’m watching a special on Tesla, was he sent from the aliens or supplied with that incredible technology from aliens? just curious …
Luv, ZL
August 18th, 2014 at 10:54 pm
It is times like these that I am not very proud to be white. Michael Brown was executed in cold blood by the Ferguson Police Force. To make matters worse their are so many bigots who really don’t don’t see it. Because they don’t want to. It happens everytime a thug with a badge gets overzealous (scared to death) and emptys his clip into an unarmed black man.
People are exonerating Darren Wilson, when the evidence so plainly shows that he executed Mr Brown. It doesn’t take that many shots to stop a man.
Things are getting to be so much worse these days, and people are getting pissed to the point where they will no longer tolerate this all to common occurrence. I don’t like to see violence hit the streets, but what other recourse does the black community have? Certainly none at all in legal system. I am steaming mad that there are so many racists in America siding with the police force, they will even side with a murdering security officer, if he is white.
August 19th, 2014 at 1:27 am
Al, please come to Ireland. We need your kind of logic desperately.
August 19th, 2014 at 1:35 am
Howie, too bad those scientists aren’t reading You on Michelle’s blog. They would know what the origin of their “mysterious” craters is all abut. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/07/21/pkg-vasseliva-russia-mystery-crater.cnn.html