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Medicaid is free health insurance payed for by federal and state taxes. Why should illegal immigrants have access to this?
Do you realize that there's not enough money in all of the governments in the world to freely take care human beings in need. The sad truth is that we don't have unlimited resources to freely just give away.
Every other developed country in the world has Universal Health Care, and friends of mine who have fallen ill in those countries have had very negligible bills. My own husband almost died from extremely low blood sugar after arriving in South Korea to visit our son. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance, treated in the emergency room with an IV, and received a CAT scan and other treatments. Our bill was 500 bucks which wouldn't even have covered the ambulance in the US.
I'm glad that your husband was taken care of in South Korea. From my understanding, there are usually incredibly long wait times for doctors and hospitals in most of the rest of the nations of the world which has "universal health care." On the other hand, here in America, we have health insurance programs that could have easily covered the bill for your husband's ambulance ride to the hospital as well as everything else the doctors did for him.
Only because he is fortunate enough to have the most reasonable, most comprehensive Healthcare in the United States, the Veterans Administration. Yes socialized medicine provides the best Healthcare in the United States, at the most reasonable price.
Good ! This is theft of senior citizens, which paid into this. They are handing it out, to young persons male female alike that are able bodied. They have stolen FEMA money, to help American citizens with disaster relief.Congressman calls on Noem, Dr. Oz with plan to 'swiftly remove' 1.4 million illegal migrants on Medicaid
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt told Fox News Digital he is calling on Noem and Dr. Oz to establish a task force to remove 1.4 million illegal migrants receiving Medicaid.www.foxnews.com
California in particular has a lot of illegals on Medicaid.
That’s an indictment on our health insurance system rather than an issue with Medicare/medicaid. If this was what was under review then it might be possible to be able to afford the healthcare we need without insurance. There ARE private hospitals in this country that do not accept insurance and their costs are WAY lower than hospitals that bill through insurance. The reason for this (or one of them) is the kickbacks the adjusters (who decide if something can be covered or not) receive. Why we don’t have more of these hospitals available to us to choose from is ludicrous.
If he were an illegal immigrant here in the U.S, it would have been zero for him. Plus all his other living expenses paid as long as he stayed here. Everything would have been provided for him and anyone else in his household. I wonder what would have happened if your husband had entered illegally, and was previously a previously deported criminal?
Since you are listening to untrue propaganda I can't respond.
My husband just got out of the hospital because of neurological complications of covid. We just got the bill. They wanted 12,000 for 2 days. The VA paid $5,000. We owed nothing. Don't try to tell me that there are tens of millions of people who could spend $5,000 for 2 days in the hospital without it seriously impacting their bottom line.
I disagree that socialized medicine provides the best health care in the United States. Also, as a veteran, I have found that VA clinics and VA hospitals to be woefully inadequate and inefficient.
Yeah I don’t know why the government hasn’t been doing their job. And before people start shouting Biden this and Biden that, this has been going on for decades before Biden was in office. It’s due to government complacency. Finally somebody is doing something to fix the complacency, fraud, and downright laziness of government agencies. I only wish Trump had done this during his first term but better late than never.Congressman calls on Noem, Dr. Oz with plan to 'swiftly remove' 1.4 million illegal migrants on Medicaid
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt told Fox News Digital he is calling on Noem and Dr. Oz to establish a task force to remove 1.4 million illegal migrants receiving Medicaid.
California in particular has a lot of illegals on Medicaid.
Yeah that’s because the medical industry gouges people so bad on their bills that most people just don’t even bother to pay them. I brought my 5 year old son into the emergency room once because he was sick and throwing up all night and the next day. He wouldn’t eat anything. I brought him his favorite, McDonald’s on my way home from work and he wouldn’t even touch it. My wife found a bubble on his finger the size of a pea that was filled with puss. I asked him when did this happen he said he didn’t know. He said it wasn’t there when he went to bed and he first noticed it when he woke up in the morning. So I got worried that he might’ve gotten bitten by something poisonous during the night and that might be why he was getting sick. So we immediately took him to the ER. They checked his temp he was 102.9, they checked his BP, they tested him for strep and Covid and said the bubble of puss on his finger was not related to his sickness. They popped the bubble, squeezed the puss out and put a bandaid on it which took a whole 2 minutes, then gave us a prescription for amoxicillin and that was it. The bill was over $8,000. They spend maybe 15 minutes on him total. He’s has a strep and Covid test before at our pediatrician clinic and they only charged $70. When I talked to the hospital about the bill I told them they’re crazy, there’s no way I’m paying $8,000 for a strep and Covid test and for popping a blister on his finger and putting a bandaid on it. $800 would be a rip off how the heck do they expect me to pay $8,000?!! That’s why health care insurance is so expensive because the medical industry are a bunch of crooks who won’t tell you how much anything is going to cost before they do the procedure even though they tell you exactly what they’re going to do because they know if they actually told you how much the bill is going to be you’ll walk out or even crawl out if you’re physically capable.
A friend recently retired from the billing department of a religious hospital. Where people's insurance was inadequate--or non-existent--they often reduced payments and let the patients pay an affordable charge every month--so affordable that the actual "bill" would probably never be paid.
