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  Don't kill it without a better alternative already in place. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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. >
  
  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. >
  
  The title of the article is about Medicaid members losing their membership this year.  Therefore it should be implied in the discussion that this is about current members and continuing their eligibility checks.  Which are just called eligibility checks by people in the industry.
  Your final point is also somewhat wrong.  The bar to be eligible for Medicaid is so low that really the only way to qualify is to be making somewhere under 20k annually.  The article says that estimates that about 1 in 5 members no longer qualify and as someone who works in health insurance providing Medicaid, I can say that that number is pretty accurate.  This is likely because of the increases in pay that many part time employers have done during the pandemic.  Whether the government adjusts the numbers to reflect that has not happened or may not happen. >
  
  There are about to be A LOT of people who cannot afford their medication. >
  
  Oh wow underground pharmaceutical sales that's crazy. That'll be a problem, right? >
  
  If they would treat healthcare as a right like owning a gun maybe it would be different >
  
  Covid made government paperwork so easy. Instead of the nightmare of busywork it's supposed to be.
  It also shows that it IS meant as punishment, and that they could do without.
  Millions of dollars in paperwork and wasted time, just to punish poor people for reaching for help.
  I have no doubt if my state flipped (it won't) I would be invited to go die by my Rep. >
  
  But is it more important than fighting culture wars though? Who needs healthcare when I can watch Ben Shapiro’s videos all day about the woke left and get riled up? >
  
  In the other hand, the elderly who voted for consequences for others at their economic level should feel some real pain for once. >
  
  The elderly are not on medicaid. They are on medicare, which is not income based. >
  
  I'm on Medicaid now and maybe i can provide some context. I should get kicked off, or Medicaid should be expanded to cover my income, let me explain: when the pandemic started, I was working for $10.25 an hour as a delivery driver, and just barely qualifying for Medicaid. When the pandemic started, the government announced it would not be removing people from Medicaid until the state of emergency was over. I make more than double what i did at the start of the pandemic now.
  I believe in universal healthcare. I think funding for Medicaid services should be expanded so they can cover me, but right now i feel like the resources being used on me might better serve someone else. >
  
  I'm in a similar situation myself. Got a much better paying job early this year plus my wife started worked. Went up there a few weeks ago and they were telling us we don't need to do anything until July. We would have accepted to be kicked off once we renewed in November and put our kids on regular insurance, but my employer said until they officially get kicked off I can not add them to my health insurance. This is something that probably should have happened sooner. >
  
  The whole "can only change health insurance at specific points" is really fucking stupid >
  
  We’ll probably be losing Medicaid next year. With my husbands raise we’ll make too much to qualify, but we still can’t afford the “affordable” insurance options. The CHEAPEST one that we could get was $1600/mo plus a 15k deductible, for a family of 4. What a joke. >
  
  If your husband's employer isn't covering most of all of the insurance premiums, you or him need to find a new job and get ahead. You know it's going to happen so why wait for it? The amount of jobs available right now is insane. Applying until you get an offer for one with good insurance will be worth the effort. >
  
  Health insurance shouldn’t be tied to employment. It’s insane how many Americans keep supporting this broken ass system by saying to just “find a new job”. >
  
  Medicaid needs to be replaced, not saved. The American people deserve better.
  The whole program is essentially a welfare trap of the worst sort. I know people who will do everything they can to limit themselves and stay on it. I know families that got to find out that once someone on it dies, the government takes their inheritance (including things they are legally not supposed to take, because they know the poor can't afford the lawyer to fight Medicaid) and auctions it off for 75-95% lower than the actual value. (That last one hits close to my heart because one was the family of someone I care deeply for.)
  Essentially, the program discourages the accumulation of wealth, and outright punishes it when a family does manage to accumulate some level of generational wealth.