Making Medicaid a pathway out of poverty.....

WasingtonPost ^ | Feb 4, 2018 | Seema Verma - Seema Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

[caww]

Prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Medicaid program focused on caring for seniors in need, pregnant mothers, children and Americans with disabilities.... But in 2010, the ACA fundamentally changed Medicaid by shifting predominantly low-income adults — often without children, healthy and working-age — into a program that wasn’t designed for them.

As Ronald Reagan once put it, the aim of a government program for the poor “should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”

True compassion is lifting Americans most in need out of difficult circumstances. The new flexibility requested by states will allow them to partner with us to help program beneficiaries live healthy, fulfilling lives as independently as possible. This administration stands for a policy that makes Medicaid a path out of poverty by empowering states to tailor programs that meet the unique needs of their citizens.

[Robert357]

Obviously someone doesn’t understand Medicad claw-back requirements that financially destroy those that accept Medicad and their immediate families.

[caww]

I don’t think that’s who this article is addressing.....

[caww]

This could be helpful....

https://www.familyassets.com/medicaid-planning/resources/protect-the-home

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markeghrari/2014/08/01/the-medicaid-look-back-period-explained/#3171de6e1364

[Herakles]

In the past 4 years I have had one neighbor with 4 generations on welfare, and Medicaid, 2 of whom were healthy and able to work. I have one neighbor who has been on disability for 40 years, with his 58 year old daughter on disability faking fibmoalgia, who has no real disability and has never worked a day in her life.

Time to get rid of the whole system and go back to the poor farms!

[caww]

Yes I too have run into a couple like that in my life......I often wondered how quick they’d be getting work if their own working family members had to pick up ‘their bills’.....

[DUMBGRUNT]

the ACA fundamentally changed Medicaid by shifting predominantly low-income adults —

And now with added income from the sale of the drugs prescribed to them! The reselling of Medicaid drugs is thought to be a large component of the opioid crisis. In Tennessee, a couple took turns intentionally burning themselves on their lower legs with boiling water and then went to different emergency rooms to obtain pain medication paid for through TennCare, the state’s version of Medicaid, Tennessee Inspector General Emmanuel Tyndall said. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/17/medicaid-fraud-helping-drive-opioid-crisis-new-congressional-report-concludes/1040695001/

[GailA]

Sounds like more than half of Memphis.