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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost a third (maybe quarter?) of [b]Americans are on Medicaid[/b] and have a totally different experience, even having gender confirming healthcare fully covered.  So we’re doing well in some ways.[/quote]

I'm on Medicaid and love it.  And I live where I can get the best (US) care possible.  When I went to Ireland and England and got Covid, at first I couldn't even find a doctor (socialized medicine doesn't treat americans), and then when I finally did, they wouldn't give me any medicine[/quote]

You’re on Medicaid but can afford international travel? [/quote]

I think they must mean Medicare. It's unconscionable that people receive these insurances and have no idea what they are called, how they are funded and that they are GOVERNMENT. Medicare = Federal. Retired people. Pretty good. Medicaid = State run. It's for the very poor and [b]for long term care (once you are impoverished).[/b] It's pretty terrible in terms of reimbursement rates, so lots of doctors won't take it and finding a dentist is nigh on impossible. All-Medicaid funding nursing homes are not ones you want to be in. Please, people. Educate yourselves. And like a PP said, it's all based on $$$. There are plenty of people who have become (fraudulent) millionaires by defrauding Medicare. Rick Scott, Senator from FL for one. [/quote]

But the system IS what impoverishes seniors. If you can’t afford 10k/month to spend on a care facility (which most seniors can’t) then you have to lose everything — drain your bank accounts, sell your home, have nothing whatsoever to pass on to the next generation to get any care at all. You can have nothing leftover for your grandkid’s  education, or for a down payment on a home, or just a bit of security.

The senior might not have been wealthy but they weren’t “destitute” until they encountered this system.

For the vast majority of American families, this is the real death tax. [/quote]

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