You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that they went on Medicaid.
Correct!
No, just a taxpayer. Especially in NYS. Medicaid cost sharing is bankrupting some of our counties.
The uninsured are uninsured until they walk into the Hospital. To get paid, the Hospital signs them up for Medicais, Kidcare or whatever the Hospital thinks will be best for the Hospital.
For many uninsured in the middle class, they wait with signing up until they get diagnosed with cancer (or whatever). Then, because pre-existing conditions cannot be excluded, they sign up.
If you are working poor (or middle class with expensive tastes) and you have a choice between paying for food and paying for healthcare, which would you buy first?
Many of those uninsured are also too proud to go on food stamps and other welfare programs. The Hospital convinces them to drop their pride so the Hospital can get paid.
Which makes sense since a large number of uninsured would have been the working poor who could not afford insurance. So instead of just dealing with that group he created a frankenstein.
Who wants to bet me, that Juan Williams will jump up and down and misrepresent this statistic every chance he gets, and no one on The Five will counter him with the facts?
Exactly! Now, tell that to Kathleen “Mother of 0Care” Sebilius.
She was just on FoxBiz saying the repeal of 0Care will mean hundreds of thousands who are now covered, will lose their coverage. (Whaaaa whaa bew hew.)
Wrong, again, Kathleen!! They’re on MEDICAID - which is what we knew would happen, all along.
Wouldn’t they have been on Medicaid or some form of free medical before if they couldnt afford insurance?