Some states kicking eligible kids off Medicaid

[Mircea]

Well, the ones who survived wouldn't.

Do you even have an inkling of why your system is the way it is?

 

[lwf]

Do you even have an inkling of why your system is the way it is?

Yes. It is because the American people are not satisfied with 100% capitalist free market healthcare. Americans tend to be somewhat intolerant of letting people who can't afford healthcare simply die.

 

[Craig234]

You just wait. The way the legislators have done law for the past 40 years. Social security won't be there for anyone under-50 due to the high amount of inflation and the cost associated that will take up all of the federal government budget. That means medicare and social security will be gone for most of us.

'Starve the beast'. On the one hand, Social Security is supposed to be protected from that, it has its revenues that are supposed to support it apart from the budget. On the other, the government apparently borrows the money from SS for that budget, so that t's not so protected. That was one of the issues in 2000 when Al Gore promised a 'lockbox' when the much of country idiotically elected Bush letting him steal the election.

 

[slavablueberryjam]

'Starve the beast'. On the one hand, Social Security is supposed to be protected from that, it has its revenues that are supposed to support it apart from the budget. On the other, the government apparently borrows the money from SS for that budget, so that t's not so protected. That was one of the issues in 2000 when Al Gore promised a 'lockbox' when the much of country idiotically elected Bush letting him steal the election.

This nation has a history of electing public officials that will rob them of their present and tomorrow and then they will say that that good times can never happen because the 'demorats' are going to steal everything from their nonexistent lives.

 

[Mircea]

Typical right wing simple worldview.

Healthcare doesn't work in a free market because the supply and demand curve for continuing to live is fundamentally broken.

Typical Left-wing simplistic world view.

You don't even understand how the system you despise came to be.

 

[Deuce]

Typical Left-wing simplistic world view.

You don't even understand how the system you despise came to be.

I know how it came to its current, egregious failures, actually.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Well it will provide incentive for those kids to get a job that has benefits rather than leech off hard working Americans

 

[Ishm]

The children should have stayed in the fetal stage.

I can't draw cartoons unfortunately, but imagine a doctor bending over an extremely pregnant woman with a stethoscope on her belly.
Voice bubble from doctor saying- "Ten months!! I've never seen a pregnancy last this long."
Voice bubble from inside belly saying - "I'm not coming out until you get rid of that m'fckg GOP govt that want to deprive me of healthcare and starve me once I am born!" Or words to that effect at least.

 

[multivita-man]

Wow. If the children are eligible for medicaid they should get it. I understand kicking adults off if they can work, but children?
I understand it may have been a caregiver's mistake, but they should let the caregivers reapply.
They should also establish a hotline in each state to help fill out the oftentimes confusing paperwork JMHO


In the end, it may cost them more by discouraging preventative care that could save them money later.

In August, the U.S. passed a shameful milestone: The number of children kicked off Medicaid passed 1 million. And that’s only the ones we can count; the real figure is likely much higher. The costs to these kids in the short term, and to U.S. society in the long term, will be steep.

The unwinding of pandemic-era rules that allowed continuous Medicaid coverage means millions of Americans are being dropped from the rolls. According to data from KFF, kids account for 43 percent of those losing public health insurance.

That’s despite most of those children still being eligible. So what’s happened? Many seemed to have been dropped because of a technicality or clear mistake: A caregiver missed a deadline to turn in paperwork (an arcane and often confusing process to maintain Medicaid access), the paperwork went to the wrong address or it arrived after the deadline to respond had passed.

It’s hard not to conclude that states are making a depressing calculus: The money saved by dropping as many people as possible from Medicaid — including vulnerable children — outweighs the benefits of providing coverage.

Comment: Some states kicking eligible kids off Medicaid | HeraldNet.com

In the end, it may cost them more by discouraging preventative care that could save them money later.

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We need single payer for all. The end.

 

[Mircea]

I know how it came to its current, egregious failures, actually.

No, you don't.

You can't even cite the applicable laws, regulations or court rulings that created your nightmare system.