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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ok, apparently the US has something called ‘Medicaid’, which is intended to help the poor and uninsured get access to healthcare. This programme has billions and billion and billions of dollars available.

I just read that the Trump administration is refusing to relax the rules so that the poor and uninsured could use Medicaid to get tested and treated for Coronavirus.

WHY?? It’s almost as if Trump is putting forth his best effort to fuck this up as badly as he possibly can.

Boru

Republicans absolutely hate Medicaid and have been working to reduce or remove it for a long time.

I know that it does need some reworking as it's not handled well.  Years ago I worked as a bookkeeper at a county level mental health care clinic.  There were two people on staff whose sole mission was to get people approved for Medicaid.  They weren't trying to make sure the people who needed it most were getting it...just getting people approved no matter what.  The clinic made a ton of money off Medicaid patients...much more than a patient with private insurance or a cash patient.  

Medicaid fraud is problem in this country.

I think it a great thing and very much needed by a segment of the population but it needs to be run much better than it is.

I wasn’t debating the merits of the system (I don’t know enough about it to do that). It just strikes me as monumentally stupid to not use money already earmarked for healthcare to help deal with a healthcare crisis.

It’s as if you have a Build-a-Bridge account and you refuse to use the money to build a bridge

Boru