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A person does not have to purchase supplemental insurance to qualify for government-funded healthcare. In fact, many low-income Americans have Medicaid as their primary and sometimes only health insurance.
Here is how the system works.
1. Medicaid: The primary safety net
Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and individual states.
It covers eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities.
The federal government pays a percentage of the cost.
State governments pay the remaining share.
For eligible beneficiaries, Medicaid generally covers hospital stays, doctor visits, prescriptions, preventive care, and other services.
Patients typically have little or no out-of-pocket expense, depending on the state and eligibility category.
Importantly, Medicaid is not supplemental insurance. It is often the person's primary insurance
In a nutshell In America, no one should be denied emergency medical care because they cannot afford it. Medicaid covers eligible low-income individuals, federally funded clinics provide affordable care, and hospitals are required to treat medical emergencies regardless of ability to pay. Government funding and hospital charity programs help cover the costs for those who cannot afford care.
While not everyone has health insurance or access to free comprehensive care, there are systems in place to ensure that people in need can receive medical care.
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@AverageJoe1 saidAccording to a study by the Yale School of Public Health:
A person does not have to purchase supplemental insurance to qualify for government-funded healthcare. In fact, many low-income Americans have Medicaid as their primary and sometimes only health insurance.
Here is how the system works.
1. Medicaid: The primary safety net
Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and individual states.
It covers eligible low ...[text shortened]... ace to ensure that people in need can receive medical care.
This could snuff many previous posts.
"“Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and for less,” said senior author Alison Galvani, the Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology at YSPH and the director of the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis. “Medicare for All strips out those sources of waste while providing everyone with healthcare, saving over a trillion dollars and 114,000 lives every year.”
The model identified five major sources of savings: lower pharmaceutical prices, Medicare-level payments to providers, reduced administrative overhead, less fraudulent billing, and fewer avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Even under more conservative assumptions about drug prices and fraud reduction, the researchers projected that the savings would reach at least $663 billion a year. Both figures account for an estimated $304 billion in additional spending to meet unmet medical needs, reimburse care that now goes unpaid, and provide universal dental coverage.
A universal healthcare policy would also save tens of thousands of lives, the researchers project. They estimate that adequate coverage for all could avert about 62,863 deaths annually — and that nearly half, or 29,631, would be among people who already hold insurance. These are the underinsured: the more than 45 million working-age adults whose deductibles and cost-sharing put care beyond financial reach anyway. Reversing coverage rollbacks and other health policies enacted since 2025 would avert a further 51,311 deaths each year, the researchers project, bringing the annual total to 114,174."
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/
Trump's gigantic tax cut already slashed Medicaid:
"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the OBBBA will cut federal spending on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits by $1.02 trillion, due in part to eliminating at least 10.5 million people from the programs by 2034."
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/
So much for millions of Americans' "primary safety net" in the words of your unattributed AI.
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@no1marauder saidI am in ill stress of my own right now, and cannot really glean your comments nor prepare a comment. However, I think I can wrap it up by saying it appears that your post says nothing about the issue, of everyone not having health coverage.So why don’t you tell everybody on the forum that you acknowledge that everyone does have health coverage from this great nation. Please?
According to a study by the Yale School of Public Health:
"“Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and for less,” said senior author Alison Galvani, the Burnett and Stender Famili ...[text shortened]... re/
So much for millions of Americans' "primary safety net" in the words of your unattributed AI.
Then, I will step back and let the studied minds of you and Sunhouse figure where all the money is going to come from for you to do whatever you want to do. I must say you too sure do know a lot about all of the numbers you just wrote. It is all Greek to me.
And a few words that we seem to be covering everyone with health coverage without your hapless socialism. Anyway, I’m told socialism never works. You have never proven that.
My thinking,? Marauder wants our countries to fail as it will, of course, and he and a huge group of Muslims will literally take over this country as has been their plan for about 1000 years..
PS: The school of Harvard also has a study out that chewing gum has risen a bit in price as well as medical drugs and components.
@AverageJoe1 saidNo comment.
Muslims will literally take over this country as has been their plan for about 1000 years.
@vivify saidYeah, crazy idea. No way that the Muslims haven’t been pushing to overrun the entire world like a can of syrup over an apple.!!!!! Why else would they push their citizens to have as many children as possible. It’s in the book.!!!!! marauder can tell you how to spell that book. Only one out of 15 can spell that book..
No comment.
@AverageJoe1 saidAre you saying we are almost already paying for universal healthcare because nobody is denied treatment but we don't have it to make insurance companies rich at our expense?
A person does not have to purchase supplemental insurance to qualify for government-funded healthcare. In fact, many low-income Americans have Medicaid as their primary and sometimes only health insurance.
Here is how the system works.
1. Medicaid: The primary safety net
Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and individual states.
It covers eligible low ...[text shortened]... ace to ensure that people in need can receive medical care.
This could snuff many previous posts.
Is that why Luigi Mangione was able to avoid the death penalty?
So the insurance companies would not be on trial for ripping us all off?
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@Metal-Brain saidI think his posts, about this subject, are to show y'all the current system is fine and stop asking for more.
@PuzZuLz
I think AJ is copy and pasting more than doing original writing. Too many of the things he has been posting about medicare contradict his opposition to socialism.
We pay 15 percent tax for everything up here and y'all pay 5 percent.
Do you seriously want to pay triple your tax so fat fried chicken eating slobs can get free health care?
@PuzZuLz saidAre you from Canada?
I think his posts, about this subject, are to show y'all the current system is fine and stop asking for more.
We pay 15 percent tax for everything up here and y'all pay 5 percent.
Do you seriously want to pay triple your tax so fat fried chicken eating slobs can get free health care?
What kind of tax?
@PuzZuLz saidBut it's not 'fine', is it?
I think his posts, about this subject, are to show y'all the current system is fine and stop asking for more.
We pay 15 percent tax for everything up here and y'all pay 5 percent.
Do you seriously want to pay triple your tax so fat fried chicken eating slobs can get free health care?
@AverageJoe1 saidIt's overall inflation from a crappy, know-nothing government.
I am in ill stress of my own right now, and cannot really glean your comments nor prepare a comment. However, I think I can wrap it up by saying it appears that your post says nothing about the issue, of everyone not having health coverage.So why don’t you tell everybody on the forum that you acknowledge that everyone does have health coverage from this great nation. Plea ...[text shortened]... o has a study out that chewing gum has risen a bit in price as well as medical drugs and components.
@Metal-Brain saidYes son in law showed me chat last week, but give average Joe a bit of credit for lasting this long without it. I posted some facts a few days ago…..is that not OK. I am quite sure that often one of us is chided for not listing our sources. It’s hard to win on the forum. Well not for me. 🥴. Me thinks you being disingenuous. You’ve never lifted Info.?
@PuzZuLz
I think AJ is copy and pasting more than doing original writing. Too many of the things he has been posting about medicare contradict his opposition to socialism.
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@Metal-Brain saidWe.pay 15 percent tax added to everything and anything.
Are you from Canada?
What kind of tax?
Everything under the sun gets 15 percent added to the final cost when you buy anything.
That's how we get our so called "basic free health care"
Are you willing to pay that much tax on everything you buy? (Pretend you are only 18 years old and you have to pay that tax for life and you won't need the hospital until you are 65)
Will you gladly pay it?