re: Our housekeeper is covered under medicaid here in La.

Subtle "I live indoors" brag.

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She mentioned the other day that each time she goes to an appointment or has a procedure the state sends her a CVS gift card. In the last month she's gotten 3 cards totaling $65.

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State is not paying her, it's her Managed Care Organization (MCO) that is providing the card. State just pays a flat rate to the MCO for her care.

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Also, she gets her prescriptions at no charge

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Yep. That's why Medicaid drug diversion is nothing but pure profit.....

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Yeah, there is no way that paying people to go to a doctor's appointment would ever be taken advantage of. People will definitely not go for every little sniffle just to get another gift card, because people are so responsible. And politicians will definitely not use that increase in doctor's visits to claim more taxes are needed to cover the increasing costs of gift cards and doctor's visits.

Geez, people. You fiscal liberals really are something.

There is a reason you won't pay for monthly full body scans in the name of prevention; it's not cost effective.

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You went from "going to the doctor for every little sniffle" to "monthly full body scans". Way to Straw, man.

I seriously doubt that they get a card every time the patient decides to go to the doctor, I'm sure it's something to do with regularly scheduled things, annual checkups, referrals to specialists etc.


Please show me some evidence to back up your claims instead of tossing out the tired "liberals, dur, dur". You have no clue what my beliefs are, I simply said that it could conceivably save money in the long run.

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Still substantially less than a single night in a hospital.

Preventative healthcare is far less than anything inside of a hospital. If it takes a gift card for people to actually GO to their appointments and maybe improve their health to stay out of a hospital, I'm all for it.

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This.

People are just stupid and don't understand things like this.

So these individuals who don't take care of themselves are going to use their CVS cards on healthy stuff and not make up, mouth wash, cleansers or some other stuff CVS sells?