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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The government is never going to toss people with Alzheimer's and no money onto the street to die so this is all just fear mongering.   [/quote]

Are you aware of how difficult it is to obtain Medicaid? If it is put into a block grant, there is going to be no way that there will be enough money for all those in need. [/quote]
Dp. Not it’s not. [b]I just got my state’s version of Medicaid for my newly arrived father.[/b] It was a 3 month wait but it wasn’t hard. [/quote]
He's not a citizen but gets medicaid? How does that work?[/quote]

It works in a state where anyone income eligible can get the state Medicaid. Even before the expansion to illegal immigrants (which my father isn’t) green card holders were eligible (my father is one). Now, anyone can get it if they are poor, and it made the wait times extremely long. [/quote]

There are about a half dozen states that provide Medicaid to at least some people regardless of immigration status, so long as they are eligible by income. But these states can only use state funds for any coverage of undocumented immigrants in these cases — it’s illegal to use federal Medicaid funds for this purpose— and usually the populations covered are kids and/or adults younger than 50, not people who would get nursing home care.

Here is a KFF Health News story about this state-funded coverage:

States Expand Health Coverage for Immigrants as GOP Hits Biden Over Border Crossings

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/states-health-coverage-medicaid-immigrants-expansion/#:~:text=Subscribe%20to%20KFF%20Health%20News,program%20for%20low%2Dincome%20people.[/quote]

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