Changes in Medicaid from Obamacare hurting the poor

[dogtowner]

unintended circumstances ? of course not.

but some people seemingly fail to see cause and effect (note last sentence).

ATLANTA (AP) - Just as Medicaid prepares for a vast expansion under the federal health care overhaul, the 47-year-old entitlement program for the poor is under increasing pressure as deficit-burdened states chip away at benefits and cut payments to doctors.

Nearly every state has proposed or implemented a plan in its current budget to rein in costs, and many are considering additional cuts in the year ahead.

For the tens of millions of poor and disabled who rely on the program - approaching nearly one in five Americans - the cuts translate into longer waits for doctors, restrictions on prescription drugs, a halt to vision and dental care, staff cuts at nursing homes and dwindling access to home health care.

Ruth Wohlforth, 70, is among those feeling the effects.

Her $700 monthly income qualifies her for both Medicare and Medicaid, but she says her benefits have been reduced, she's being forced her to make co-pays for the first time on prescription drugs, and she now has to drive about 30 minutes from her home near the southern tip of New Jersey to see a doctor. Some of her friends have been assigned to doctors in Philadelphia.

She said she feels lawmakers are not aware of the real-world consequences of their spending cuts.

 

[Openmind]

unintended circumstances ? of course not.

but some people seemingly fail to see cause and effect (note last sentence).

She is obviously a very bright person who doesn't get fooled by the propaganda from Fox News.

She KNOWS that it is the push to "cut spending" while also "cutting tax for big corporations and the wealthiests among us that is responsible for the squeeze on Medicare/Medicaid.

I'm sure she got that $250.00 check in 2011 to help her with the "donut hole" in her prescription coverage (Medicare D), and that, the Obama care law will shrink that "donut hole" every year, until it no longer exists. . .if the GOP doesn't get it's way!

 

[dogtowner]

She is obviously a very bright person who doesn't get fooled by the propaganda from Fox News.

She KNOWS that it is the push to "cut spending" while also "cutting tax for big corporations and the wealthiests among us that is responsible for the squeeze on Medicare/Medicaid.

I'm sure she got that $250.00 check in 2011 to help her with the "donut hole" in her prescription coverage (Medicare D), and that, the Obama care law will shrink that "donut hole" every year, until it no longer exists. . .if the GOP doesn't get it's way!

if you read what I posted you will see that Obamacare expands the Medicaid rolls dumping financial responsibility onto the states who can't afford what they already have. Its the state budget cutting not Congressional.

The donut hole is Medicare by the way.

Oh and that's an AP article, not Fox.