It racist to confuse people by making them pay a $1 per month for Medicaid ...
It racist to confuse people by making them pay a $1 per month for Medicaid ...
...It racist to confuse people by making them pay a $1 per month for Medicaid...
And it’s also confusing for Medicaid recipients to pay a $3 co-pay at the receptionist window before being able to see the Doctor.
I would have to see how the billing is done.
Medical billing is horrible. I am collage educated have very good insurance have a firm grasp on my finances.
But the billing done by my local clinic and this is not bill statements from my insurance company.
Leave a lot to be desired.
Perhaps these recipients need a legal guardian
It’s not that they don’t know how to pay. They don’t think they should have to pay and know they’ll get free care regardless. Don’t neighborhood health centers give free care even without Medicaid? The sad part is that paying even $1 helps people to be more responsible and accountable. Over time, as they do more for themselves, it can lead to a better life.
The welfare-state enablers who paint people as victims aren’t doing them any favors. Years ago, I saw a report about a program at a large hospital that took people from welfare and started them out working in the kitchen. After they’d demonstrated their good performance on the job, they were asked to choose where in the hospital they’d like to pursue a career. They interviewed this woman who looked in her 30s and had decided to pursue nursing. She was on the floor with the doctors and other staff. You could tell she was respected, needed, and very well suited to her job.
She spoke of how much better she felt about life and how happy she was that she could be an inspiration to her kids. This woman likely went on to earn additional credentials within nursing, all paid for by the hospital. Forgive my long-windedness, but I’ve never understood why people see these very light requirements as a bad thing.
After the dust has settled on the deep state stuff, we need to take out their civilian branch, the medical administration business. The reason it is not simple is that a lot of money is made keeping it as complex as possible.
In more than a few cases, the reason for nonpayment is that the recipient does not qualify and may not even exist. Cagey fraudsters recognize that even a nominal monthly premium payment is an affirmative act that can be used to build a prosecution.
this is what happened as the expanded medicaid coverage to people who were never intended to qualify for medicaid.
States like Kentucky had had ridiculously high levels of disability claims, as the states began tightening rules, medicare expanded. A friend of mine who works as a psychologist processes disability in Kentucky, the number of people who attempt to deceive the system is quite high... if stupidity in how they went about it was a qualifier, the state could easily triple its disability claims.
I once was at a convenience store and the guy in front of me bought $200 worth of lottery scratch tickets and a case of beer.
I wouldn’t believe it had I not seen it.
I was thinking, well, guy, you’ve your whole afternoon all set up!
Wish I could chime in better on topic. It’s been a long time since I lived in the States.
What exactly is wrong with literacy or IQ tests to vote?
As someone who asks poor people their name (and doesn’t always get an answer) every night of the week, this doesn’t surprise me a bit.
Fine. Kick them off.
Stop all government freebies to non-citizens and they’ll have to go back where they came from.
My friend works at an inner-city pharmacy clinic. Most of the meds are donated and the clinic charges a minimal copay to the patients ($1 to $5), depending on the drug.
He said they do not turn people away and most of the patients know it. So the patients will say they do not have the copay when they pick up their medication... all while holding their Starbucks coffees in their professionally manicured hands attached to their elaborately tattooed arms, etc.