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  well his reply suggests otherwise. Yes there was continuous enrollment. Once you were eligible you didnt have to reprove it yearly. That is true. 
  if i misinterpreted fine, his reply suggests not, but literally eligibility checks werent suspended, just rechecks of eligibility. ITs actually quite rare for poor people to find themselves suddenly in a higher bracket as it is.
context: sure, that's what poor americans need, even less access to healthcare >
  
  Perhaps they should try not being poor? Just get some bootstraps and stop being lazy… sheesh!
  /s obviously >
  
  Ironically MANY, and I mean MANY trumpists are dependent on social programs. Go to any walmart not in the inner city and you will find employees on food stamps that love trump. >
  
  Meanwhile Walmart subsidies itself by underpaying their employees, during record profits. This should be highly illegal. >
  
  Yes! Exactly-why isn’t this talked about more? >
  
  honestly I've seen people talking about it consistently for 10+ years, the problem is just that we don't have enough money to buy the votes to do something about it. >
  
  Time to form the Poor Peoples PAC. >
  
  
  Poor People’s PAC
  
  That’s a great idea!
  Say, didn’t that MLK guy start a Poor People’s Campaign back in ‘68?  
  I wonder what happened next… >
  
  Poor People’s Campaign still exists, though I see no evidence that they are actually doing anything >
  
  All it takes is for the leadership to be willing to be paid to be ineffectual.  I'd suggest we take a closer look at the finances of our would be leaders. >
  
  States will be able to remove people who don't qualify for Medicaid.  For the past several years, people kept Medicaid even if they no longer qualified for it.
  "When the administration first declared the public health emergency (PHE), it also barred states from kicking people off Medicaid.
  In a normal year, many people enroll in Medicaid and many others leave as their income or circumstances change. States run routine checks on Medicaid members to make sure they're still eligible for the program, and throw out anyone who isn't. The public health emergency halted that process.
  "There are lots of reasons people move on and off Medicaid, but what the PHE has done is, for the last few years, no one has moved off Medicaid" >
  
  So I am confused as to what the issue is. If you no longer qualify for medicaid, then you qualify for Obamacare subsidies. If you did qualify because you lost your job during covid and now you have your job back, why should you continue to qualify? And if you still don't have your job back, then you qualify for Medicaid. >
  
  According to the article its common to get kicked off medicaid even if you are still eligible. >
  
  If you don't refresh your eligibility >
  
  That's one of the reasons, sure. But we all know how easy everything is with the government. One of the parties is always making things harder to do. So refreshing it isn't that easy especially for poor people who might not have a constant place to live. That means they might not get the mail notice on time and also means no internet to check their status online >
  
  or in some states, its so understaffed it takes them months to go through applications. >
  
  Yep. I do that and I just finished applications from October. They have contracted out the workers. So they are definitely trying to catch up, but since they aren't the ones not getting Medicaid it's still a slow process. I think it's ridiculous that people have to wait over 30 days to get medical care, but they go back 3 months to pay any bills you might occur during that time. >
  
  I have it and am grateful for it! >
  
  FYI, you should also be thankful to the Medical providers taking it.  Many providers who take Medicaid patients actually do so as a form of charity because they don't make enough from Medicaid reimbursements to cover the cost of service. >
  
  real question though : is it because medicaid doesnt pay enough, or is it because of the inflated costs of many procedures? >
  
  Medicaid doesn’t pay enough.
  When the person to whom you replied said “cost of service,” they meant the costs faced by the medical provider - not the billing price/usual negotiated price. >
  
  Strange. Medicaid has the best reimbursements for pharmacies. Dad is a pharmacist and he never understood why so many doctors don’t take it. >
  
  And somewhere, this very second, a beer bellied man in fatigues and reading glasses on top of his head calls the president a socialist. >
  
  Brought to you by the people who have free healthcare for life. This is what you get when you don't have none of the above as a voting choice. >
  
  Come on guys, take solace that Kim Kardashian is really grinding out there. >
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised if she has insurance that covers cosmetic surgery. >
  
  
  The mammoth spending bill passed by Congress would allow states to kick some people off Medicaid starting in April. Millions would become uninsured, according to estimates from the administration and several health care nonprofits.
  
  I wonder which states will do this?
  Why would any state kick people off of health care? >
  
  There is eligibility criteria to be on it in the first place. During covid, eligibility checks were halted. Under this bill, they will start again. >
  
  Eligibility checks were never suspended, not sure where you got that idea from. They couldnt kick you off. But they sure as fuck could deny medicaid to someone making 60k a year who simply choose to not have insurance. covid didnt change that at all. >
  
  You’re kinda just arguing the same thing as who you commented on.  I think it is implied from the comment given the nature of the post that the eligibility checks were halted for existing Medicaid members.  I don’t think anyone here is debating about the fact that those checks were always in place for people who were not already members.