(March 13, 2020 at 7:08 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 13, 2020 at 6:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: 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
Because they are being assholes. The chump has already stated on live TV that if he wins the presidency this year, he will go too work on taking the money from Medicare and Social Security- despite the fact that the people using Social Security paid into it. I paid into it for 45 years, and I expect to collect on it. My Medicare is partially paid for by Social Security. I wonder if his base is stupid enough to let him pull those rugs out from under them with impunity.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.