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If your income was zero, couldn't you have gone on Medicaid?
by tschwimmer 9y ago
If your income was zero, couldn't you have gone on Medicaid?
- curun1r 9y agoOnce open enrollment rolled around, yes. But the point was I didn't want Medicaid, I wanted a plan that let me keep my previous doctor. And I was willing and able to pay (savings), but the ACA didn't allow me to take the subsidy in lieu of Medicare. And also, there was the matter of the nearly 4 months between when I returned to the US and when I was allowed to enroll during open enrollment. For a law that's designed to help people get healthcare, mandating that someone wait to get healthcare seems like an odd choice.
- JamesBarney 9y agoNot necessarily, depends on the state. Texas for instance has no adult medicaid.