Hundreds of Thousands Have Lost Medicaid Coverage Since Pandemic Protections Expired Millions will lose Medicaid coverage as Covid policies unwind. I didn’t realize it but recently 91 million Americans were on some sort of Medicaid policy. It was 71 million before the pandemic. In places like Arkansas it is as high as 1 in 3 residents.
I am sure Gov Huckabee is very, very concerned for the well being of all of those poor people. No worries.
Without crunching the numbers, I wonder what percent is on medicaid, medicare, ACA stipends, VA benefits; and how it wouldn't be cheaper to just offer universal coverage. I feel like this should just be a math equation at this point.
Governor Sanders is a Cino - Christian in name only. Some of the people kicked off Medicare in her state will die due to lack of health care. She knows it and doesn't care. She just signed a law eliminating permits requiring an employer to verify a child's age and parent's consent before hiring the child. So much for family values.
Yeah jax. Probably as many on food stamps too. The land of Milk and Honey does not apply to everryone.
Also disturbing is the number of active duty service members who are on public assistance. Disgraceful.
danmanne65 - thank you for the correction - I meant to say Medicaid. I am 67 years old and have Medicare (Part A).
Not trying to be a jerk sierra and I'm not picking on you. (Your awesome). Whats even worse are the number of former (and active) service members whom splatter their brains all over the living room carpet with those lead firing toys the GOP is so enamoured with. My point is - Our culture worships the few % of people that make it - You know the wealthy, rock stars, political pundits, anyone on TV. Not so much the 95% that don't measure up to the B.S. standards of the media or the marketing (commercial) idiots that make us all living zombies.
I think this is about right. Then factor in employee and employer tax breaks for providing employer health care. I think the day will come when we have something approaching universal health care, but it will likely be fragmented. Eventually all states will adopt the Medicaid expansion and sometime after that perhaps a public option will be added to ACA.
Why do you think they’re opposed to abortion? They need them as cheap labor to fill jobs that don’t pay a living wage.
Of course we will. It is inevitable. One party has wanted it and the other hasn’t done a damn thing to prevent it for over thirty years now.
That's nothing new. It's been like that since the early 90s. I supervised kids who were on it back than. Was just as disgraceful then as it is today.
93,008,246 individuals were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP in the 51 states and the District of Columbia that reported enrollment data for January 2023. 85,915,795 individuals were enrolled in Medicaid. 7,092,451 individuals were enrolled in CHIP. 41,859,753 individuals were enrolled in CHIP or were children enrolled in the Medicaid program in the 49 states and the District of Columbia that reported child enrollment data for January 2023 representing 46.2% of total Medicaid and CHIP program enrollment. They don’t even work. Default!!