Medicaid unwinding

250k dropped in Florida

 

Or they can't. What is another alternative?

 

Sorry, no such thing as can’t!

 

No, it's actually a pretty mixed bag

https://www.medicaid.gov/state-over...on-enrolled-medicaid-or-chip-state/index.html

 

I have been saying that for years.

All old people covered.

All (most) poor people covered.

Military covered.

Veterans covered.

Rich - don't need it.

What is left? Just the working class maybe 30% or so.

 

Yes -I love the attitude!!

So why don't they? There have been opportunities. Repeal and replace with what exactly?

 

I already said it. They don’t want to

 

So they have a workable alternative, just no desire to try to implement it?

 

Hey I've got an idea, let's open up the borders so we can support more deadbeats.

 

There’s plenty of workable alternatives. There’s just no desire to implement or no desire to fight it out. Either way we’re F’d. We will end up with a shitty single payer system or a ridiculously expensive private system, which we are almost at now.

Nothing the politicians have done to date have begun to address the issue of why we even have to discuss this; that is the cost of the service. Until the politicians have the balls to incentivize providers and insurers to reduce cost, that will not change. There is no will to confront the AMA, the pharma industry and the insurance PAC money.

 

In fairness those changes came about due to the threat of joblessness due to covid shutdowns and not wanting people to not be covered and getting covid.
Since the shutdowns are long over, UE is still lower and salaries have risen, why do these people still need to be on medicaid?

 

Well they need to increase medicaid payments as of now most Doctors don’t take it because it pays so bad they spend almost as much trying to get paid as it pays.

 

Nah the Dems are ensuring that with all the illegal workers.

 

I actually agree that everyone should have medical coverage they can afford. Question is how do we do that.
Since I spent 18 years in the ER I know all about the things you speak of.
I also saw plenty of people who chose not to get employer sponsored health Ins because they didn’t want to spend the money(mostly the young and healthy who didn’t think they needed it).

 

Most all payors are pretty bad, not sure who is worse with respect to timely payments.