Elders and Poor Endangered By New Health Care Law

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Medicaid, the government program that ostensibly provides health coverage for the poor, imposes so much red tape and pays so parsimoniously that she simply cannot afford to treat these patients if she wishes to avoid bankruptcy.
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“There’s a massive fallacy at the heart of Medicaid and therefore at the heart of Obamacare. It’s the idea that health insurance equals health care.” And, as is usually the case with the deliberately deceptive fallacies promoted by the Democrats, the target victims are poor Americans. Just as Obamacare’s Medicare Advantage cuts will be felt primarily by low-income seniors, its Medicaid fraud will hurt the country’s most vulnerable patients. It will restrict their access to doctors and reduce the quality of what little care they receive.
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“It has gotten so bad that, in the average state, for every dollar that a private insurer pays a primary care physician to care for a patient, Medicaid pays 52 cents.” Many states pay even less. New York, for example, pays 29 cents.
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The Democrat record regarding the underprivileged isn’t pretty. They defended slavery, enforced racial segregation, opposed women’s suffrage, and still chain low-income students to public schools that teach them virtually nothing. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that the Democrats have created a health “reform” program that denies poor people access to decent medical care.

http://spectator.org/articles/57334/obamacare’s-medicaid-fraud

OBAMACARE’S MEDICAID FRAUD
Dooming the poor to third-rate health care.
By David Catron

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