COVID is over. Let Medicaid return to normal

[SugarDaddy1]

President Joe Biden is not one to let a good emergency go to waste. His Health and Human Services Department is pressing states to keep COVID-19 expansions of Medicaid long after even the Biden administration admitted the coronavirus pandemic was over.

At the start of the pandemic, Congress passed the 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act. It provided states with temporary emergency funding to expand Medicaid and prohibited them from removing people from the program, regardless of eligibility changes.

Democrats love to make Medicaid expansion seem a costless benefit for everyone, but this is magical thinking. Not only do federal taxpayers foot the bill for increased enrollment, but as emergency funding from Congress disappears, the cost is shifting to state taxpayers.

Expanding Medicaid to those who could otherwise afford private health insurance makes it much harder for those who need Medicaid to get healthcare. Medicaid pays doctors less for each patient and procedure than it does for Medicare, and far less than private insurance. This means that most doctors limit the number of Medicaid patients they see. By increasing the number of Medicaid patients looking for doctors, Medicaid expansions make it harder for those already on Medicaid to get treatment.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/covid-is-over-let-medicaid-return-to-normal

 

[ll74]

Expansion of Medicaid benefits everyone.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

COVID is not over.

 

[ll74]

Viruses don't care about your feelings.

 

[Chernosoth]

Covid evolved to become more contagious and less fatal, the usual route for respiratory viruses. It's just a cold now, like anything else we get in winter. But the shots have permanently damaged immune systems, so the quaxed are screwed and many will die this winter.

Expansion of Medicaid sounds like a fine idea, until we look under the hood. Competent healthcare was already stretched thin, and became thinner as so many healthcare workers quit, were fired, or were delicensed instead of getting the shots, and some have died after getting the shots. The route we will eventually need to go is expanding the definition of healthcare to people who practice alternative medicine, including the work of determining which alternative medicines and practices actually work. Many of those practitioners are also quaxed, since alternative medicine became somewhat mainstream and middle class. Simplifying the process and reducing the expenses of becoming doctors may also happen, if doctors and hospitals retain enough public trust to survive.

 

[ll74]

Covid evolved to become more contagious and less fatal, the usual route for respiratory viruses. It's just a cold now, like anything else we get in winter. But the shots have permanently damaged immune systems, so the quaxed are screwed and many will die this winter.

That would be bullshit.

Expansion of Medicaid sounds like a fine idea, until we look under the hood. Competent healthcare was already stretched thin, and became thinner as so many healthcare workers quit, were fired, or were delicensed instead of getting the shots, and some have died after getting the shots. The route we will eventually need to go is expanding the definition of healthcare to people who practice alternative medicine, including the work of determining which alternative medicines and practices actually work. Many of those practitioners are also quaxed, since alternative medicine became somewhat mainstream and middle class. Simplifying the process and reducing the expenses of becoming doctors may also happen, if doctors and hospitals retain enough public trust to survive.

"Alternative" medicines are mostly bullshit created by grifters.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/covid-is-over-let-medicaid-return-to-normal

Oh looks who's back, how come you're not in your thread about those Americans living pay cheque to pay cheque....Oh right it was a major fuck up by you. Kind of like this one is.

But hey why don't you start another thread about something Canadian, I enjoy making you eat your words!!

 

[Bray123]

Why would any self-respecting Trump supporter want to destroy Medicaid?

All those low-paid poorly educated people might die early and Trump will lose their votes. Plus, he campaigned on actually improving health care until he found that it needed some thought and that was too hard for him.

 

[Lazaran]

Why would any self-respecting Trump supporter want to destroy Medicaid?

All those low-paid poorly educated people might die early and Trump will lose their votes. Plus, he campaigned on actually improving health care until he found that it needed some thought and that was too hard for him.

“Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated”