Medicaid

For people who rely solely on Medicare or Medicaid, or don’t even have health insurance, these are the only places where they can afford to see a doctor.

Among those suggestions was making Housing Choice Vouchers an entitlement benefit, akin to Medicaid and Social Security.

In fact, in a 2019 article I co-authored with then-University of Pennsylvania researcher Kalind Parish, we found that poorer residents in states where Medicaid had been expanded were notably more supportive of the ACA after its implementation.

Republicans control the governments in most states that have not expanded Medicaid, and even the three states with Democratic governors have to contend with Republican-led legislatures.

He pointed out that the state’s 2018 expansion of Medicaid coverage help more Virginians be able to afford health care prior to the pandemic.

Now that I am free, I have Medicaid and doctors no longer assume I am malingering.

Medicaid is required to cover people in skilled nursing facilities, that is, institutions.

More importantly, Medicaid served as a secondary insurance to his primary insurance.

However, since he was living at home, our income and assets disqualified him from SSI and Medicaid.

As of 2012, there are over 523,000 people across the country on Medicaid waiver lists; over 309,000 of those people have I/DD.

Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are commitments of conscience, and so it is our duty to keep them permanently sound.

But we must not abandon our fundamental obligations to the people who need Medicare and Medicaid.

This plan will balance the budget and invest in our people while protecting Medicare, Medicaid, education and the environment.