If the chronically ill have no ins they will go on Medicaid. You will then foot all the bill. Medicare which they pre paid in taxes takes in a lot of the elderly, but a lot of younger people have chronic diseases, and many are made worse or given a new disease by crap FDA approved drugs. Half my health issues are caused by FDA approved drugs, they left permanent un-repairable health conditions.
Are you going to leave them NO health care ins, but to go on Medicaid? High risk pool make sense. Have you tried living on $500 SS a month at today’s prices?
My BIL has MD it is genetic and his younger brother has a milder form of it. We found him a used motorized wheel chair that just needed a new charging cable and batteries cheap. It was a $5K chair when new. But that mini electric/gas car they have won’t take a wheel chair ramp, nor can they build a wheel chair ramp on their home on the side of a large hill they call it living on the side of a Mountain, yeah it’s part of the Smokey Mountains but it is really a huge hill. When Pigeon Forge burned, my sister lost her job and health ins for them. Approaching 60 with no skills but cleaning motel rooms, who is going to hire her?
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“If the chronically ill have no ins they will go on Medicaid.”
This is ridiculous.
First of all, I am not chronically ill but I can’t get regular health insurance.
Second of all,
I don’t qualify for Medicaid. And if I become chronically ill..I still won’t qualify for Medicaid.
I am not sure I am clear on your argument. I take it that those on Medicaid have to keep income and asset levels low in order to have the government foot their healthcare bills? That becomes in a sense one of those perverse incentives to keep people poor and from improving their situations.
But somehow those with high costs who are not already on Medicaid should have the government pay their healthcare bills without requiring such an asset pay down?
Why is that just?