That doesn't surprise me at all. I worked with families who had disabled children that qualified for assistance. Many could well afford private insurance and some had cancelled their employer policies because they didn't have to pay an extra premium. When Medicaid quit paying for pull-ups and went to strictly diapers...you'd have thought the world ended from all the griping and complaining.
Medicaid paid for their formula, medicines, diapers, wipes, medical equipment/physicians and specialists, plus 24 hr nursing care if they had a trach or g-tube. The taxpayers were shouldering the lion's share of responsibility and it doesn't seem kosher.
Granted, there were several families I saw who actually needed assistance, but they were the exception...not the rule.
One gal I knew years ago had enough meds stored up to open up her own pharmacy. Sometimes I wish someone with common sense and a sense of budgetary constraint was in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. If non-citizens and people not entitled to benefits were eliminated from both (forcing their own countries and/or personal accountability to pay), that alone would save both millions of dollars, not counting obvious fraud that seems to persist.
One gal I knew years ago had enough meds stored up to open up her own pharmacy. Sometimes I wish someone with common sense and a sense of budgetary constraint was in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. If non-citizens and people not entitled to benefits were eliminated from both (forcing their own countries and/or personal accountability to pay), that alone would save both millions of dollars, not counting obvious fraud that seems to persist.
One gal I knew years ago had enough meds stored up to open up her own pharmacy. Sometimes I wish someone with common sense and a sense of budgetary constraint was in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. If non-citizens and people not entitled to benefits were eliminated from both (forcing their own countries and/or personal accountability to pay), that alone would save both millions of dollars, not counting obvious fraud that seems to persist.
One gal I knew years ago had enough meds stored up to open up her own pharmacy. Sometimes I wish someone with common sense and a sense of budgetary constraint was in charge of Medicare and Medicaid. If non-citizens and people not entitled to benefits were eliminated from both (forcing their own countries and/or personal accountability to pay), that alone would save both millions of dollars, not counting obvious fraud that seems to persist.