class Americans are not allowed into the political discussion
yet, Dem voting blocs---hyphenates, illegals, gays, criminals,
and other social misfits, have been given a major voice....
Posted on 11/04/2013 2:28:25 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois prison officials say as many as 30,000 newly freed inmates could gain health care coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act.
As part of the new federal health insurance law, Illinois is among the states that will offer Medicaid coverage to all nonelderly, low-income adults.
That includes prison parolees, who typically leave the Illinois Department of Corrections without any health coverage and must use emergency rooms when they are sick or injured.
The agency says the change may not only offer parolees a path to treat chronic ailments and mental health issues but could stop them from committing new crimes.
“The benefits will include long-term public health benefits and increase public safety by reducing crime and recidivism,” Corrections spokesman Tom Shaer noted.
“It will help them avoid getting in trouble. It will help them keep a job,” added Mike Claffey, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
Before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, states were required to provide Medicaid coverage to certain low-income children, pregnant women and disabled adults.
Now, Illinois and other states that have agreed to the Medicaid expansion must offer Medicaid to low-income adults younger than 65, regardless of whether they are disabled or pregnant.
While Illinois prison officials estimate there are about 28,700 parolees eligible for coverage, the Council of State Government’s Justice Center puts the national tally at more than 350,000. The latter number includes former prisoners who also may qualify for insurance through the states’ health exchanges.
In a 2011 report to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, officials estimated parolees could make up a quarter of all new Medicaid enrollees in Illinois after 2014.
Shaer said officials have designed a plan to begin the Medicaid enrollment process when felons are first entering the state’s prison system so that the inmates have a managed care organization picked out when they are discharged.
While that plan is not currently in place, that won’t stop parolees from simply enrolling through, for example, local public health departments. Parolees also may have an opportunity to enroll at various parolee expos held each year.
The federal government will reimburse Illinois for 100 percent of the cost of each enrollee for the next three years. After that, the reimbursement rate drops to 90 percent.
“It’s for our benefit to get this population enrolled,” Claffey said.
Whom was the idiot that said, “Crime doesn’t pay?”
Fixed it.
An Illinois parolee was just heard to say; "Damn it. Haven't we been punished enough?"
Is there anything Husseincare CAN'T do? Can pets sign up for this miracle?
So it looks as if every freelancer in the country, as long as he keeps his income below the radar, will qualify for Medicaid. That’s a lot of odd-job men, haulers, artists, hacks, babysitters, and drug dealers.
Drudge had a story about whores benefiting too...
Talk about Breaking Bad...
Sweet! That means Dubuque, Waterloo and the Quad Cities will get up to as many as 29,985 new ACA enrollees! Hopefully some of them will be very vocal prison converts to Islam, because there's nothing more "fun" than going to the public library and hearing them proselytize the clueless late-teen offspring of the local creepy-ass crackers.
Mr. niteowl77
“Hopefully some of them will be very vocal prison converts to Islam”
Islam is exempt from Obamacare as well as the Amish - freedom of religion, you know.
Obama’s/the Democrat's core base!
Illinois medicaid is worth as much as that state pays providers for it, which has been nothing for a long time. So hardly anybody accepts it. Here in the Quad Cities no one in my specialty (Dermatology) takes it. I have no idea how far they have to travel to find anyone who does. Sen. Kirk (RINO-IL) is pushing a bill to require good rehab coverage for all stroke victims. As a member of the elite he’s had lots of physical therapy sessions covered and has recovered a lot after his stroke. IL Medicaid only allows 4 physical therapy sessions for stroke victims, barely enough so they physically can vote for Democrats.
Heh---DEMS manage to fall asleep not by counting sheep---but by counting their voting blocs.....would make a great video.
Dems in their flannel nighty-nites, counting criminals, gays, illegals, hyphenates, etc---jumping over the fence.
ROTFL
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