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If you're poor in the US, insurance is free. It's the lower middle class and middle class who are frequently bankrupted by these costs.
by jnbiche 8y ago
If you're poor in the US, insurance is free. It's the lower middle class and middle class who are frequently bankrupted by these costs.
- greedo 8y agoAssuming you can find a doctor taking new Medicaid patients.
- Spooky23 8y agoHahaha. Sure. Good luck finding a Medicaid provider.
- jnbiche 8y agoEvery doctor I see is a Medicaid provider. Yes, there are doctor who don't accept it, but it's not hard where I'm from to find a doctor who does (perhaps we have an oversupply of doctors?).
- ceejayoz 8y ago"Medicaid provider" and "Medicaid provider taking new patients" are not the same thing. They'll usually set a maximum number of Medicaid patients for the practice, and there'll be a long waiting list for that.
- fucking_tragedy 8y ago> If you're poor in the US, insurance is free Depends on if the individual's state accepted Medicaid expansion funds from the federal government (states like Texas and Florida haven't) and whether the individual makes less than ~$16.5k/yr. I wouldn't call either $0k/yr in North Carolina, or $17k/yr in New York, lower middle class. Neither of those incomes in those places would give an individual access to Medicaid.