Healthcare gives Democrats a potent midterms attack line in Iowa and beyond

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By Nathan Layne

CENTERVILLE, Iowa, July 7 (Reuters) - Shannon Gooden has voted Republican her entire life, including for Donald Trump three times. But the looming closure of the rural Iowa health clinic where she works has her questioning that loyalty ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Her unease over medical costs and access represents an opportunity for Democrats.

In Iowa and other battleground states, Democrats are campaigning against Republican-backed cuts to Medicaid – the health program for low-income Americans – and rising costs, while Republicans argue their policies will curb waste and lower expenses.

“I was raised a Republican, and I’ve always voted Republican, but it’s gotten to the point now, more what are you going to do for us?” said Gooden, 56, who is a receptionist at the River Hills Community Health Center in Centerville, a two-hour drive south of Des Moines. “Something needs to change.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/healthcare-gives-democrats-a-potent-midterms-attack-line-in-iowa-and-beyond/ar-AA27nUES

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1. Womp...womp....hope your racism was worth your homelessness

ZERO SYMPATHY for anyone in health care who votes for republicans.

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2. My personal experience is any healthcare group that is purchased by private equity....

their quality of care goes down. The focus on the business becomes about profit with unnecessary procedures and treatment being pushed unnecessarily. The problem is that most physicians have to belong to a group in order to share the expense of business....administration, real estate, equipment, billing. You very rarely see any type of healthcare other that PCP by independent physicians. That is also the reason that most PCP will send you to a specialist for everything other than minor issues. Prior to the 70s the PCP did almost everything other than serious issues right there in their office.

Bottom Line - we do not have a healthcare system in the US based on health but mostly based on profit ($$$$).