We have had Medicaid the entire time - prior to the law that covers those that are not able to afford insurance. If they didn't have Medicaid? There are other options - and were at that time too. The young lady that lives with us had Cancer treatments prior to this law, and she didn't have insurance. After the law? She had followup treatment - which would have happened to anyway - on Obamacare Medicaid.
Quite honestly, they need to improve the medicaid program. Doctor's refuse for the most part to take it right now. She is on it now, and you have to make hours of phone calls to find one that is willing to see her. When they say you can have insurance, but that doesn't mean you have health care? It's true.
It was true PRIOR to this law as well. That's why I didn't understand WHY they didn't change how it works at the time Obamacare happened. They said they expanded the program in certain states that wanted to do that, but all they did was put more people on it. They threw poor people on a medical program that doesn't work, and called it healthcare.
At times you can't find a doctor that will take it. If we are going to have a program that is geared towards people like we have? We must have one that works. She can't even get a regular doctor now, because they might take the insurance for a time...and then they lose so much money they drop them as patients. We had our local hospital taking her for a while, and that included an oncologist for her cancer follow-up. Now, they won't take her anymore. It's a constant ongoing battle.
Manageable costs would be nice. They didn't fix that the last time either. When people approach improving the program, and making it better? It depends on what side politically is speaking. Why do I say that? You get two different answers depending on their leaning. You can't even discuss it. If you brought up how it is NOT working for the many that lost their insurance, and never got it back? They will tout how many others have insurance now instead - possibility for the first time. That wasn't the intent of the law - it was to expand the number of people. When you bring that up? You must hate poor people is the response.
This issue gets such immature responses it frustrates people no matter what your political leaning. It would have been a decent experiment if they didn't make it so partisan. I personally think Democrats could be an asset to improving the law, but they refuse too....because the Republicans are working on it. It's hard to get anything done when you have two sides acting like 8th graders in the middle of their drama.
