Posted by jane d on September 19, 2012, at 0:15:32
In reply to Re: new healthcare law and drug patient assist program » herpills, posted by Novelagent on September 16, 2012, at 7:26:14
> Most people eligible for medicaid don't bother signing up for it, so they found if you get people who are poor to sign up for something they're already eligible for, that basically closes the gap of how many are uninsured by millions nationwide.
>> If you're under 26, you're now insured by your parent's plan.
If your parent has a plan with family coverage. If your parent (or you) can afford the additional premium.
> Odds are, if you're having to use a patient assistance program, you're likely eligible for medicaid but for some reason haven't bothered to sign up. It's unlikely you would qualify for a patient assistance program and not be eligible for medicaid. Why haven't you signed up?You're wrong. That may be how it works in Massachusetts but where I live non disabled, non elderly adults without children do not currently get medicaid no matter how poor. Then, even if you are in an eligible group (ie disabled), there are asset tests which may disqualify you for things like owning a home or a reliable car.
Furthermore, the medicaid "expansion" doesn't refer just (or mainly) to raising the allowed income level to 133% of poverty level - it refers to allowing non disabled but poor adults to qualify for the first time. But the supreme court has ruled that states don't have to do that - and many of them have indicated that they won't.
>Mediciaid is not new, it's been around since 1962. If you get sick and go to the ER, you won't be able to afford your bill, so I have to pay the tab with my insurance because you didn't bother to fill out a simple form.
Since medicaid will pay retroactively for up to 3 months I doubt your hospitals are losing all that much money.
> There's no way a patient assistance program is going to qualify someone who isn't alreafy eligible for medicaid.
See above. They can and do. If everyone who was needy had medicaid there would have been no need for these programs in the first place.
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