re: 7 in 10 Louisiana children are on Medicaid

If you’re at the median income level in this state you can qualify for Medicaid with only 2 kids.

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That’s 70% Which if you do the math... well, they ain't all Democrat for sure.

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True but if you look at SNAP, over 70% on SNAP live in Democrat dominated parishes and only a few parishes make up the majority % of SNAP recipients

Nurses were able to do a lot more when they weren't consumed by government regulations and computer charting.

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Don’t have kids if you can’t provide. It’s as easy as deciding whether to buy a car. It’s not like it just fricking happens.

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Yea IMO if you’re going to have to rely on the government(aka the people actually paying into the system), then you should have your tubes tied after that first kid. Why should I have to pay for my kids and subsidize yours. A lot of Medicaid recipients have multiple kids, makes no sense.

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Because our extreme left wing wacko governor changed the requirements. Put them back like they were before the idiot took office

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Newsflash...Landry isn't going to do that

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A family of four can easily pay over 20 thousand dollars. I guess you rather kids die than get adequate health care even if it’s from the gov

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I wouldn’t have a kid if I didn’t have an insured plan from my employer or be independently wealthy.

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frick you. The problem is American healthcare system. A family of four can easily pay over 20 thousand dollars. I guess you rather kids die than get adequate health care even if it’s from the gov

This board amazes me in its stupidity. If you think our healthcare system is great, just wait till one of you or one of your family members is dying from a curable disease or cancer and you have a choice of paying millions even with insurance or watching them die. For those who keep calling me poor, you know knowing of me and my career. I can’t believe how heartless you all are. I think you all enjoy watching people suffer and struggle .

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The issue is that everyone in the US receives adequate health care....but many never pay a penny for their own so everyone else has to foot the bill. We are not going to tolerate providers not providing regardless of ability to pay because we are too good hearted in general to do so. WHy we do not simply provide everyoone with basic health care and eliminate the lawyers and collections efforts from the equation is beyond me. We all are paying for those who do not pay now...and we are also paying for the lawyers who collect the unpaid debt. It is idiotic to continue to pretend otherwise simply to facilitate the sick, twisted desire some of us have to see people suffer....

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Hospitals break even on Medicare and Medicaid

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Generally, hospitals make money on Medicare, with the exception of outliers. There are way too many Medicare patients to actually make it all up on private insurance. Hospitals lose a ton of money in the ER. Low reimbursement there and so much bad debt walking in through your doors.

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Because our extreme left wing wacko governor changed the requirements. Put them back like they were before the idiot took office.


Explain yourself here

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Louisiana’s program started in July 2016. Adults ages 19 to 64 with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level — about $16,750 annually for a single adult or $28,680 for a family of three — are eligible for coverage. The federal government pays nearly all the Medicaid expansion cost. State lawmakers passed a tax on health maintenance organizations and hospital fees to cover the state’s share.

The Democratic governor said thousands of people have been newly diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes and cancer because of expansion. He credits the billions in federal tax dollars received with spurring health industry job growth. And he touts Census data showing 8% of Louisiana’s residents are without health insurance, lower than the national average and below the uninsured rate of neighboring non-expansion states.

“Expanding Medicaid is the biggest, easiest decision that I’m going to make as governor,” Edwards said. “Unlike the other Southern states across the country, Louisiana has not had a single rural hospital to close. And that’s due in large part to the Medicaid expansion.”