Medicaid is the program the very poor can get on. Also, disabled people. And hospitals for the most part won't turn away emergencies or someone giving birth. In Texas and other border states, the emergency rooms are overrun with illegals coming across the border just to give birth and then they turn around and go back home. This is what drives the costs of healthcare up. The ones paying have to pay for those not. Medicaid gives very low reimbursements to doctors and hospitals to the point that they lose money on the patient. Then there is Medicare for those 65 and older. It was good for awhile but now the reimbursements have become low like Medicaid. So older people who have worked and paid into the Medicare system all their lives are now being turned away by some doctors or are facing shortages of doctors and can't be seen. Once on Medicare, your choice ends to an extent now and it's going to get much worse. For instance, my OS chose the best knee implant for me but say when I'm 68 and maybe need my other knee done, he may be told to use the cheapest implant. Hope I don't need another one. You also have no drug choices. I take Celebrex and its covered by insurance. I cannot take the generic substitute for it since it makes me sick and doesn't work. Well, once on Medicare, I won't have a choice. When my husband retires, we will be on Medicare and normally, most seniors that can afford it, buy supplemental plans because Medicare doesn't cover everything. Medicare and Medicaid are corrupt and both are almost broke. Fraudulent claims are unbelievable and the government workers overseeing these programs are corrupt too.
Young people coming out of college aren't finding great jobs and aren't getting insurance. If no young people are paying into the system, the system is going to crash. When obamacare was written, a few things were done right such as covering pre- existing conditions. But so much extra pork or excessive waste was hidden in it that it's going to fail. Every senator that voted for it got some "quid pro quo". What's in it for my state if I vote for it? The EPA got money. Railroads got money. What's that got to do with healthcare? Illegals are going to be given coverage. They pay nothing for it and people who pay no taxes here somehow get refunds. Nothing is working right anymore. Like all great empires, looks like we are going down. You have people voting who can't read, some that can't speak English, some that are "dead". Yes, dead people voted in th last election and some voted several times. What's saddest of all is when you find out about a wounded warrior or Vietnam war vet living on the street with no insurance. Yes, there's VA hospitals but lots of our vets have mental issues and don't even go in for help. Sad when they gave so much and get so little back. Well, that sort of covers it from my point of view. It would take far too long to explain it all. It is what it is and Ike I said, the elderly and the very poor will suffer. Our pres and congress won't cause they don't have to use it and they are filthy rich too. I'm sure it's that was in the UK too.
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