... Ask How You Treat the Poor: Medicaid Coverage on the Drop List.
When Medicaid no longer exists because it is "Too Expensive" to provide for the Poor, how long will it be before it becomes "Too Expensive" to require Emergency Room Treatment for the Poor?
If Emergency Treatment remains available to the Poor, and Medicaid is dismantled, the costs will be passed on by Health Care Providers like the Emergency Room Services of Hospitals. To whom or what will these costs be "passed on"? To you and your Insurance Company. See Robert Pear, "As Number of Medicaid Patients Goes Up, Their Benefits Are About to Drop" p. A27, col. 1 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Thursday, June 16, 2011).
Politicians who say that they would prefer Medicaid assistance to the alternative system of passing the costs on to you, reportedly stand by while Medicaid is dismantled because resistance is "'fairly futile.'" Id., quoting a person identified as the director of the Washington State Governor's office in Washington, D.C.
The dismantling of Medicaid will affect you for sure. 1 out of every 5 "Americans" receive Health Insurance provided through Medicaid "at some point" during a calendar year. Id. "'They don't have money to do lobbying.'" Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV, quoted in id. See also Denise Grady, "Children on Medicaid Shown to Wait Longer for Care" p. A27, col. 1 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Thursday, June 16, 2011).
And so, when Medicaid is cut down and the winds of costs whistle by as they are being passed on to you, remember this time. Think then of the priorities selected now. Remember what you said or did while other people were openly selected for, shall we say, 'emergency treatment'. And that it all became so much more expensive for you compared to the way it has been for you and for your family and for your clients for 45, 50 years. And remember that no matter how much more you pay in the future as a result, the Poor are paying much, much more.
And that the top 0.1 % are paying less.
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