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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They want Medicaid returned to its original intent: low-income elderly, catastrophically ill adults, disabled adults, chronically ill & disabled children, and the children of low-income adults.

Medicaid should not be for my neighbor with anxiety. How is there no WFH job that she can do? BFFR.

If you are able-bodied, you should be required to work to get Medicaid. End of story. [/quote]

Your neighbor is the except...report her if you feel that strongly about it.[/quote]

DP here. We all know stories like this. I also want parents of disabled children under 26 to be income-tested. I know several wealthy families with disabled minor children on Medicaid. It should be need-based. We make way less than many of these - why am I subsidizing them?[/quote]

For this one you'd need to tackle private insurance. I have a relative with a medically fragile child who must have 24-hour supervision because he has a trach-vent. Their private insurance won't cover that, so he has medicaid, which does cover the 24-hour nursing. They are relatively well off financially because his dad is in big law, but even with their money, just one of his short hospital stays can total up to a half million.

Here's a mom on TikTok who also has a medically fragile kid on a trach-vent who explains why medicaid for the kids of wealthy parents is necessary.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjb1SLSS/[/quote]

It’s “necessary” because our country as represented by politicians decided that every life has value, and that we as a country would support that.  Is that really where we are now though?  DOGE, Miller, RFK Jr, and Trump are spending OUR tax dollars on what THEY value.  I’m really worried about what will happen to the medically fragile of all ages once the Medicaid-dependent hospitals start to close, especially in rural areas.

I’m not sure what your point is about tackling private insurance.  Are you imagining that profit-focused corporations will somehow decide to add new, expensively and chronically I’ll patients to their coverage lists?

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The PP (or you, if it's you) said that they wanted medicaid for children to be income-tested meaning that disabled kids of wealthy parents shouldn't qualify for medicaid. I meant that that scenario will only work if we tackle private insurance reform so that insurances are required to cover more. My relatives are well-off, but if they had to cover the remaining balance of one hospital stay that their private insurance didn't cover, they'd quickly be wiped out. And then what would happen? The entire family could theoretically qualify for medicaid.

Their kid's last hospital stay was 23 days and totaled $1.8mil. Their private insurance covered most, but there was still a 6-figure amount leftover that medicaid then covered so that the amount they needed to pay out of pocket was not even a few thousand.

The key to most things re: healthcare is insurance reform, IMO. [/quote]

Does not make sense given OOP maximums. 
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