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Originally Posted by microbet
I don't really want the personal story that you can't post. I want to know why it's Obama's fault and why it wouldn't have happened under Trump. I'm skeptical that medicaid expansion accounts for any significant part of it, but feel free to post the irrefutable proof.
Regardless, apparently the solution is not having health care? Not for certain classes of people? More stringent government regulation? Regulation for only certain classes of people?
Do you know how people are normally able to afford health insurance? By having a good paying job. If Obama had focused on jobs instead of healthcare, he would have resolved both. Do you know what else people who have good jobs and meaningful work in their life are less likely to do - overdose on narcotics. Sure, anecdotally, addiction afflicts everyone, but statistically the poor are disproportionately afflicted.
I already posted the statistics on Medicaid expansion and opiods - the correlation is irrefutable.
Note as well how many people entered the Social Security roll as jobs became scare under Obama -
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/OASDIbenies.html
Yes, the population got older. But notice the disability numbers climbing as well. I'm sure early retirement numbers grew as well.
So, yes, focusing on jobs instead of healthcare is a better policy decision in fighting the opiod epidemic and would be different under a Trump administration.