re: 7 in 10 Louisiana children are on Medicaid

Most of the people I know on Medicaid choose to be so they don’t have to pay for their kids healthcare which is why they won’t get married.

And Louisiana wants them on Medicaid for the federal $$$

Si Se Puede. This is 20 years old with sCHIP. There are more Hondurans in New Orleans than there are anywhere else outside of Honduras.

What happens when the "regular" people are finally outnumbered by the "medicaid" people?

What happens to the whole system when there's more people in the wagon than who's pulling the wagon?

This goes back to what OP says. More than half of the children are on socialized medicine? That's a problem.

And it's not a healthcare problem. It's a civilization problem.

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I’d rather kid’s parents prioritize health over the newest IPhone and Jordan’s for their child. They could absolutely pay for the necessities in life if they cut out the pork to stop keeping up with the Jones’.

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1 ER visit with no insurance = 2-3 iPhones.

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Good luck finding a physician willing to do a procedure x for $10, or even $35. Why would someone go to med school and risk liability for something that may go wrong for the cost of a range of two happy meals or 4 fast food combo meals?

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it was just an example - put your own numbers in

Do you really think an hour with a general practitioner is worth $375?

Come with me to a Walmart in my Texas neck of the woods. Then, we'll go to a Louisiana one. If we sat and talked about what the issues are, poor education and drive is going to be number one. Race, political party etc will be much more secondary. Lazy, stupid and poor is a virus.

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Then procedure x should be $35 for everyone - this is where the government should step in - charges are the hospital’s discretion - the hospital is accepting that Medicaid will only pay $35 bc the procedure only costs $10 to begin with $75 for a Tylenol is a little excessive

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Pretty sure you are both wrong with how it works.

I listened to my department head discuss it a few years back and it’s a percentage, not a dollar amount that entities, like Medicaid, will pay.

The hospital increases the cost because Medicaid/Medicare will only pay 20-30% anyway.

It isn’t a defined amount, but instead a percentage of the charge. It may even be less than the 20-30% quoted above, and it is constantly decreasing.