Medicaid USA

Caspar schreef:
De balken in het rood zijn de staten die de uitbreiding van Medicaid hebben verworpen, en zoals u
kunt zien, zijn die bijna alle geclusterd aan het laagste eind van het toegankelijkheidsspectrum.

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Ben Leet
Thu, 2013-10-03 14:23
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Some 50.4% of all children in the U.S. either receive Medicaid (41%) or are uninsured (9.4%) according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities report "Policy Basics: Introduction to Medicaid". We are too poor for most parents to afford medical insurance for their children.
About 36% of U.S. citizens (including children) are either uninsured (16%, or 50 million) or receive Medicaid (20% or 67 million). We are too poor as a nation for that minority to afford medical care.
"In the typical state, Medicaid eligibility is now limited to working parents with incomes at 61 percent of the poverty line [$11,913 for a family of three] and unemployed parents at 37 percent [$7,226 for a family of three] of the poverty line." says the report.
Childless adults (except if they are disabled) are not eligible for Medicaid no matter how poor they are. But children under six require "mandatory" Medicaid for incomes up to 133% of the poverty level, $25,975 in a three person family. After the child is between 7 and 18 the income level for mandatory coverage drops to 100% of poverty level. If one is poor, the first priority is to have a child, then find a job no matter how low the pay.
"In the poorest states, the federal government pays 73 percent of all Medicaid service costs; the national average is about 57 percent," the report states. It spent $414 billion in 2011.
Medicaid spends its money this way: 44% for blind and disabled, 20% for seniors, 21% for children, 15% for adults. $19,530 is the poverty level for a family of three in 48 states according to the HHS guidelines for 2013