Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country”

Wordpress ^ | July 4, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country”

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

July 4, 2022

Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country.”

And you don’t have to take my word for that.

NBC News just reported: (the bolding is mine)

Black women are underserved when it comes to birth control access. The Roe decision could make that worse.

Discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system have already led to a gap in contraceptive access for Black women.

The Supreme Court’s ruling to gut nationwide rights to abortion last week has highlighted the importance of access to birth control, which already proves difficult for many women of color due to discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system.

While the decision does not directly impact access to contraception, legal experts say that states and municipalities that are aiming to ban abortion at the point of conception may also challenge contraceptives like Plan B and intrauterine devices. Some state legislators have already taken steps to try to restrict birth control. In Tennessee, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, earlier this year called Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that ensured birth control access to individuals who were married, “constitutionally unsound.” (A spokesperson for Blackburn told The Washington Post in June that she “does not support banning birth control, nor did she call for a ban.”)

“The hardest burden is going to largely fall on Black women who already have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country,” Jennifer Driver, senior director of reproductive rights for the State Innovation Exchange, a national resource and strategy center, said about the impact of the decision. “And now it’s going to be even harder.”

So there you have it. NBC quoted a health care expert as saying that, “Black women who already have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country.”

Obamacare has been in effect since 2014.

What percentage of black women voted for Obama? Well, the Washington Post reported:

“… black women have been Obama’s most loyal supporters at the ballot box. They accounted for 60 percent of all black voters in 2008 and supported Obama to the tune of 96 percent. In 2012, 98 percent of black women under 30 voted for Obama, compared to 80 percent of young black men.”

So 96% of black women voted for Obama in his first election.

And 98% of black women under 30 voted for Obama in his second election.

Liberals refer to this as “diversity.”

But I don’t see any “diversity” there.

Instead, all I see is conformity.

Anyway, the fact that under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country,” is a direct result of the fact that elections have consequences.

The vast majority of black women voted for the President who gave them Obamacare.

So the fact that these same black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country” is a direct result of their own voting choices.

[Brian Griffin]

Only one month and 15 days until I am seen by an oral surgeon to look how my ‘unrestorable’ wisdom tooth can be removed.

[Brian Griffin]

“Making birth control pills OTC means they would no longer be covered by insurance and women would have to pay for them on their own.”

https://birth-control.procon.org/

They could be made reimbursable.

“Among birth control methods, the Pill ranks seventh in effectiveness....”

Hormonal implants are about 61 times more effective.

[Brian Griffin]

And all this time I thought I was an unmarried white male.

[Soul of the South]

“Black women are underserved when it comes to birth control access. The Roe decision could make that worse.”

I thought every drug store, many food stores, and most big discount stores in this country sold condoms. Who knew black women and men weren’t able to buy them?

[Chode]

then norplant every last one of them at puberty...

[ealgeone]

They could just say no. Just sayin…..

[Organic Panic]

“have insurmountable odds trying to get someone else to pay for their healthcare,” is more like it,

[semimojo]

So the fact that these same black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country” is a direct result of their own voting choices.

The author needs to show that their access was better before the ACA (doubtful) or that there was an alternative to the ACA that would have been better for them. Otherwise this article makes no sense.

[Albion Wilde]

“The hardest burden is going to largely fall on Black women who already have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country,” Jennifer Driver, senior director of reproductive rights for the State Innovation Exchange, a national resource and strategy center

White Guilt Specialist Jennifer Driver, MD, lives in New Orleans. Sounds like she has never driven through the poor white areas of her own state, of Appalachia, or many other remote, poor white parts of the nation.

Maybe her point of view is based on racism in her state. Here in Baltimore-DC, patients, doctors, nurses, and medtech staff are half POC