Posted on 07/02/2025 6:55:55 PM PDT by Kazan
Just to many republicans that want to keep Medicaid for illegals Donald should honestly become independent and take his voters with him.
Teddy Roosevelt did that, it’s how we got Woodrow Wilson.
I remember when we had the welfare-to-work program started by Clinton and the repub congress-as a comp case manager, I think it worked very well. That idiot Obama undid it, and now here we are having to do congrssional magic tricks to get it going again...
As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Is the writer saying that the U.S. govt's general budget money is helping to fund SS, or is the writer including money paid to SS recipients from the SS fund that was funded by the workers and their employers as part of "federal spending". If it's the latter, then it's such a misleading statement I'd dare call it lying. The SS fund money paying out SS checks is nothing what virtually any reader would think is meant by "federal spending". But if it's the former, if there is money coming from the general budget to supplement SS, I'd be very much interested in knowing about that.
Healthcare costs have perverted by the system politicians have created. Third parties pay for virtually everything. Healthcare is devoid of market forces to keep prices down. And, thus, it is not affordable.
There are going to be all sorts of examples of someone kicked off Medicaid that most will believe was worthy of being on it.
The truly lazy 20-somethings won't bother getting working or getting healthcare. They will be running up huge bills at emergency rooms that they won't payback.
And, the author's points are accurate. More red tape will make the system less efficient and run up unexpected administrative costs.
Republicans are going end up owning the mess the comes out of all of this.
What they need to do is find a way to bring market forces back into healthcare to drive costs down so healthcare and insurance is affordable again.
Because medicaid is taxpayer funded, it used to have a sliding fee scale-it did when I first began working with workers comp clients and insurers. It is now free and pretty much unregulated for any deadbeat who can fly under the radar and not get busted-ridiculous...
I certainly agree that the current healthcare system is a fustercluck-but we have to start somewhere small to get some sane market forces to see an opportunity-and suddenly yanking the mojados and other deadbeats off the govt tits will be an attention getter-and an excuse for some brutal audits from hell. I’ll take a little more confusion for awhile if it pisses the powers that be off enough to just say “bastante” and start digging into the whole mess.
Destroy it bit by bit, that way you don’t miss any moving parts like grift sources-I’d personally rather see it nuked from orbit, but that would cause way too much collateral damage-just my dos centavos...
It’s not just illegals. My criminal nephew got disability for a “back problem”. He’s a grifter, and I hope this makes him do some real work.
That would be awesome the GOP is just a party of grandstanders who when a democrat is in office always cower in the corner
IT IS A START-—AND IT IS BETTER THAN ZERO
RUN OUT THE INVADERS -———AND LIGHTEN THE WORK LOAD, SISTER
SS and Medicare are technically self funded. So that is sort of a lie.
Please educate me how Medicaid isn’t welfare. Asking sincerely and respectfully.
MediCARE isn’t welfare because you paid for it, did you mean that? MedicAID qualification is based on low income, disability, and foster care based, right?
Is it not welfare because it is in kind medical care rather than money or food?
Thanks!
There are no market forces keeping healthcare costs down.
Sure, get a job and pay for food and rent. But, it's not always that easy to pay for healthcare insurance.
Of course it is.
Do you pay premiums for Medicaid the same as you pay for Medicare??? I have no idea how the Medicaid system works!!!
Health insurance is different from state to state, and all the RAT states have stupid public policy laws, and hence real expensive health insurance rates. "Underwriting" is not allowed. All comers, regardless of health, must be accepted and will pay the same or similar rates.
The socialists want to kill private health coverage so they can force everyone on "single payer" or government coverage, like Canada.
Most or all of the Red states have common-sense mandates that allow carriers to offer affordable premiums to healthy people, and alternate subsidized programs for high-risk patients.
Not as far as I know. It may also vary from state to state, as each state usually has a different name for MedicAid, and some may require a copay or small premium "contribution".
Thank you!!!
I was an eligibility worker for MediCal way back when. You are correct. If you had income you could still be eligible but had a ‘share of cost’. MediCal didn’t pay util your share of cost was met. But that was before EVERYONE was eligible for Medicaid. We had what were called Medically Indigent Adults. MIA. If you were over 18 with no kids you weren’t eligible until you were totally disabled by Social Security or 65? if I remember right.
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