Posted on 09/22/2017 6:38:28 PM PDT by mdittmar
>>McCain is nuts.<<
These guyz are all big gubbamint republicans. I remember when republicans stood for lower taxes, less government, less regulation.
Yes CottonBall the bills turns Medicare over to the states I do not think seniors will be getting the care they are getting now and yes this will be a HUGE change and as far as seniors are concerned not a change for the better!! I don’t know about other states but in CA. medical SUCKS as it is right now, if they put all of the seniors in CA. on it also it will be the worst care EVER!!!!
Are you talking about Medicaid or Medicare?
Goodbye Pres Trump and FYS.
They won’t be putting me up on a shelf.
You said that I once got caught.
This was speaking without thought.
I got beefs, I bear grudge
Though my reasons are all fudge
But the stars that I reach
Think that I’m their favorite peach...
Beats me...
Paul, there aren’t a bunch of quick solutions to the Medicaid problem.
For poor older folks, I’m not sure there will ever be one. Some form of bidding process might help, with health care players bidding as low as possible to get that business. Other than that, I don’t see a fix there.
As for folks who are financially strapped and still need health care on the government dime, I’d say the best way to reduce the Medicaid costs in the fifty states, is to create more jobs, get people back to work, and let them start picking up the costs of insurance, either personally, or through work.
We should be able to reduce those Medicaid rolls for 25-50% of the people on it. Some of the folks aren’t seniors. They can work, and should.
I am sorry to hear of your situation. I know that it is replayed in millions of households across the nation.
I wish there were quick fixes, but there aren’t any.
It seems to me that careful planning would alleviate part of this. We need to overhaul our SS and retirement service programs. We need to make people owners of their plans, and more responsible for their long term situation.
Of course some folks will always fall through the cracks. I still think we can minimize those numbers over time.
We need to get to work on this, so in 10, 20, 30, 40+ years on, we don’t have anywhere near this type of situation any longer.
Best of luck to you.
I hope I addressed your concerns in the prior post.
Take care.
Thanks Ambrosia. I agree with all your comments too. Just so it doesn’t slip by, I agree that a lot of illegals are on Medi-Cal.
One third of my entire state is on Medicaid, and 65 percent of all children in my county are on it. One third of the local pediatricians left the state not long ago because the Medicaid reimbursement rates tumbled, while the ‘administrative costs’ associated with the program are 15 percent - more than double that of commercial health care insurers.
Unfortunately we have plenty of jobs - along with plenty of people who don’t desire to work. Why bother working when they have 42 separate state programs to funnel money to them?
Further, until the average income person, not the poor, the average income person, who also works hard and plans very well, can get through life without heavy gov't support* of their healthcare costs and not be bankrupted at the end, we are only tinkering around the edges.
*(in any of its many forms)
I'll try to get back to you further on this - right now... Let's just say I'm pretty busy with a parents' care situation. And, I want to make a short post on another thread B4 I crash, tonight. :-)
I fully agree.... I'm of the opinion that DC is full of traitors and rats and needs to burn..!
Thus my name for him: John McNuts!
>>Paul won’t vote for this bill because it doesn’t really repeal anything.<<
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We should pick up several more Senate seats in 2018.
Might be better to wait until then, when Trump is closer to a genuine majority.
If Graham and Kasich like the bill, I DISTRUST IT.
I was distrustful from the beginning knowing Graham wrote it. Or perhaps sponsored it, whatever he did.
Doesn’t appear to do much to actually get rid of Obama care.
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