Showing posts with label Medicaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicaid. Show all posts
Vanishing Health Care
Around 20% of Americans rely on Medicaid for their health care coverage. Depending on the location, it may be somewhat more or less than that. Medicaid covers 41% of births and about 60% of nursing home patients.
Even if you don't use Medicaid, because you have good insurance or you are able to pay out of pocket, Medicaid affects you. How? The clinic or hospital where you get your treatment depends on those Medicaid payments. If those patients disappear, the facility can't afford to stay in business and continue to provide your care.
This is an even bigger problem if you live in a rural area or an underserved town. There already aren't enough doctors, and if the hospitals and medical practices are forced to close because they lose Medicaid, there will be none. You won't enjoy driving 300 miles to get routine care in a far-off city. and if you have a heart attack, 911 can't send an ambulance that doesn't exist to take you to an emergency room that closed two years ago.
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