I was on the original team in Oregon that convened focus groups with businesses, medical staff, and citizens back in the 1980s to create a stopgap between insured and uninsured folk. The result was the Oregon Health Plan. Now the state's official Medicaid program, it serves 25% of the state population. That number is huge and demonstrates the need--and consider those who are not on it, unable to do the paperwork, fall short of qualifying, etc.
Back then, I was a young college grad holding a secretarial job while I pursued my career. I was a fly on the wall during those meetings in which interested parties hashed out how to offer medical coverage to residents in need. The irony is that due to a poor income year, I was kicked off of Obamacare last year. I am now enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan. For the time being.
As these states begin to show their colors I hope the Contrarian develops and maintains a "cruelty/compassionate list. The list should easily display the degree of cruelty or compassion.
While Arkansas started their cruelty in 2018 under Gov. Hutchinson, our dearly beloved (NOT) champion liar governor Huckabee Sanders has made the program much worse since 2024.
Paperwork submitted by those Medicaid applicants (frequently with very ill and/or disabled children) gets lost accidentally on purpose, many times over and over.
Since 2018, hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients have been cut from the rolls, while the rich got another tax cut and, I just read over the weekend, there is a huge surplus of funds in the state's till.
In my state, they can choose to play fair or close every single hospital and create a healthcare crisis for everyone including the most affluent.That’s their choices.
I'm sorry you have to be dragged along in that. It's like living through the pandemic with a bunch of loudmouths crying about people putting a square of cloth on their face in order to stay alive. Seemed like a no-brainer, and it certainly highlighted who was who in the brains department.
There is something chronic about these scenarios: judgment is hanging over people like the sword of damocles. My son described his attempts to get food stamps when he fell on hard times as an exercise in futility--this is decades ago--and my elderly mother fell short of qualifying for medicaid by TWENTY dollars of income. I don't mind admitting that we found ways of gaming the system for her in other ways cuz she was just too proud to cheat, if you can even call it that, and she still got royally screwed: signed a contract for assisted living in August and the facility notified the residents one day (and this is true) before Thanksgiving that they were closing in January.
I was on the original team in Oregon that convened focus groups with businesses, medical staff, and citizens back in the 1980s to create a stopgap between insured and uninsured folk. The result was the Oregon Health Plan. Now the state's official Medicaid program, it serves 25% of the state population. That number is huge and demonstrates the need--and consider those who are not on it, unable to do the paperwork, fall short of qualifying, etc.
Back then, I was a young college grad holding a secretarial job while I pursued my career. I was a fly on the wall during those meetings in which interested parties hashed out how to offer medical coverage to residents in need. The irony is that due to a poor income year, I was kicked off of Obamacare last year. I am now enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan. For the time being.
As these states begin to show their colors I hope the Contrarian develops and maintains a "cruelty/compassionate list. The list should easily display the degree of cruelty or compassion.
While Arkansas started their cruelty in 2018 under Gov. Hutchinson, our dearly beloved (NOT) champion liar governor Huckabee Sanders has made the program much worse since 2024.
Paperwork submitted by those Medicaid applicants (frequently with very ill and/or disabled children) gets lost accidentally on purpose, many times over and over.
Since 2018, hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients have been cut from the rolls, while the rich got another tax cut and, I just read over the weekend, there is a huge surplus of funds in the state's till.
In my state, they can choose to play fair or close every single hospital and create a healthcare crisis for everyone including the most affluent.That’s their choices.
I'm sorry you have to be dragged along in that. It's like living through the pandemic with a bunch of loudmouths crying about people putting a square of cloth on their face in order to stay alive. Seemed like a no-brainer, and it certainly highlighted who was who in the brains department.
There is something chronic about these scenarios: judgment is hanging over people like the sword of damocles. My son described his attempts to get food stamps when he fell on hard times as an exercise in futility--this is decades ago--and my elderly mother fell short of qualifying for medicaid by TWENTY dollars of income. I don't mind admitting that we found ways of gaming the system for her in other ways cuz she was just too proud to cheat, if you can even call it that, and she still got royally screwed: signed a contract for assisted living in August and the facility notified the residents one day (and this is true) before Thanksgiving that they were closing in January.
I live in Texas and the state government already failed to increase Medicaid coverage to assist so many people in need.
Do you record the live videos? I live on the West Coast and frequently miss them.