Posted on 03/26/2023 7:20:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At the start of 2022, Thomas Marshall weighed 311 pounds. He had been hospitalized 10 times in five years, including six surgeries. He had an open wound on his left leg that refused to heal — made worse by living in a dirty, moldy house with five other people, two ball pythons, four Chihuahuas and a cage full of rats.
Marshall’s story is part of a radical rethinking of the relationship between housing and health care in the U.S. For decades, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with disabilities or low incomes, would only pay for medical expenses. But last year the Biden administration gave Arizona and Oregon permission to use Medicaid money for housing — a nod to reams of research showing people in stable housing are healthier.
Now California wants to join those states, building on the success of programs like the one that got Marshall housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed spending more than $100 million per year in the state’s Medicaid program to pay for up to six months of housing for people who are or risk becoming homeless; are coming out of prison or foster care; or are at risk for hospitalization or emergency room visits.
It would be the biggest test yet of using Medicaid money for housing. California has the nation’s largest Medicaid program, with more than 13 million patients — or about a third of the state’s population. California also has nearly a third of the nation’s homeless population, according to federal data.
California wants to go further by using Medicaid money to directly pay some people’s rent. Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who chairs the budget subcommittee that will vet Newsom’s proposal, said lawmakers are supportive.
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They’ve all got,their eyes on medicaid and Medicare and ss money.
I missed the part where it was pointed out maybe having all thise animals and NOT cleaning the house were the responsibility of him and the other people in the house.
Maybe give them some mops buckets and Lysol?
I’m confused. Is this some low income Indigent guy, and don’t we have section 8 and other such rental subsidy programs for low-income people? Does he qualify for such programs? If so I wouldn’t he get subsidized from those existing programs rather than creating a new program?
Or am I missing something , with them saying your housing situation affects your health?
Is it possible that Newsome is an agent of Mexico, trying to make California so insolvent that only Mexico will take them back?
Rob money from the sick to pay the slackers dopers and drunks yeah that sounds like California,
HOW ABOUT REMOVING ALL BUT THE DOG????
Rats cannot be very useful & NO ONE can tell me that they are “support animals”.
Wonder how they keep the snakes from eating the rats AND the dog??? AND-—SNAKES STINK....SO DO RATS——
NEWSOM (any threesome Newsom) wants to be President-—
Will he push for ALL states to use FEDERAL TAXPAYER FUNDS in this manner?
How about requiring such an obese person to actually get surgery & CLOSE SUPERVISION????
FAT-—DIRTY-—ANIMALS everywhere-—SO MEDICAID SHOULD SUPPORT HIM?????
THIS IS A COMPLETE SLAP IN THE FACE TO THOSE OF US WHO TAKE BETTER CARE OF OUR SURROUNDINGS. IF THEY ALL GET MOVED TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION-—IT WILL ONLY BE REPEATED.
NO-—HELL NO !!!!
JOAQUIN can pound sand-—
IS he even here legally????
THE OTHER 5 PEOPLE CANNOT KEEP THE HOUSE TIDY?????
DO NOT REWARD BAD BEHAVIOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO wants to bet me that this person hasn’t worked in years-—IF EVER.
What person is that? The one in the article with the rats and dirty living conditions?
And why not. Medicaid gets about 2/3 of its funding from the federal government, so why wouldn’t states be willing to expand the program into new areas - they won’t have to pay most of the bill.
YES GREAT Answer
Yes, let’s dump even more unearned income into the economy. What could go wrong? We’re marching closer and closer to UBI. There seems to be no stopping it!
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