Medicaid has various levels of support based on income/assets. I can let you know what those are here in Ohio. If you have assets, Medicaid would make you liquidate everything down to a certain point before it would kick in.
Nope. In addition to the states that don't have expanded Medicaid, and particularly if ACA is ruled unconstitutional and expanded Medicaid goes away entirely, US healthcare system is a tad expensive so even if someone doesn't qualify for Medicaid, they may not be able to afford the healthcare provided by the hospital.
Americans views on healthcare (mostly Democrats). Sanders and Warren have gotten shit for saying they want to eliminate private insurance, but Dude below makes a god point, medicare is not totally a government program about a 3rd of people in the program do choose to get private plans. As someone else has pointed out, fear of change and that of being trapped with no options, may be the main reason on why ACA expansion is more popular than forced medicare for all. https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...tem-to-change-just-not-their-own-health-care/
Professor Blendon needs to do more research on how Medicare in it's current form actually works. Every person that enrolls in Medicare is forced to at least have a PDP and ALL PDP plans are underwritten by a private insurance company. It's not an option, if you enroll in Part B and do not have a PDP or other credible coverage, like an EGHP, you are penalized. What he may have been talking about are MA plans, which about 25 million or so people have enrolled in, and are essentially letting a private insurance company manage their medicare benefits. The way the article was written is either ignorant of the way Medicare is managed or written to make it read like he doesn't know.
Medicare advantage (part C) is part of medicare, so not sure what the problem with his comment was. Is it that he said 'buy into' compared to 'enroll into'? https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicare/
Part C is most definitely NOT part of Medicare. They are approved by Medicare, but completely remove the enrolled from the public program and all their costs are managed by private companies in exchange for a monthly stipend from CMS. https://www.hhs.gov/answers/medicare-and-medicaid/what-is-medicare-part-c/index.html
They are under the law part C of medicare. I am not understanding your point. BTW, that is the point they were making, that 1/3rd of all people enrolled in medicare choose to go with private insurance companies aka Medicare part C.
Just reread your original post. I misread it at first, but still, even without talking about part C, you are forced to buy private PDP coverage with your Parts A and B.
Something similar happened to my mom maybe 10-15 years back when she was uninsured, was at the doctor for a procedure and afterwards the person at the desk was breaking down the cost, the doctor happened to come by and said, "No wait, she doesn't have insurance." Front desk person said oh okay and started quoting a much lower price.
Usual practice. Hospitals and practitioners over-bill insurance companies knowing that there's a chance of it being reduced, and/or shared with the insured. The oddity here is that the insurance was expecting to recoup money from the patient(?). If the choices are between not collecting money at all (uninsured person), or collecting a reduced amount directly, they use their "other price list".
There are facilities that are using Medicare base rates for services regardless of who is paying. For instance, lets say a procedure is needed and Medicare is willing to pay x. For people not on Medicare, the procedure is billed as a percentage plus, or 150% of Medicare allowed cost. Of course there are facilities that try to balance-bill the patient to get a higher, sometimes 600%+, of the Medicare allowed cost, and try to get you to sign something that states you will be responsible. That's a process that needs to be outlawed. If all procedures were based on the Medicare allowed cost our system would be much cleaner and much less expensive.
And we have as well on Bigsoccer. Page after page of literal thinking. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/still-crazy-after-all-these-years-creationists-keep-trying.1617028/
When I go to the library I always get a kick out of all the books that are in the non fiction shelves written by big time prevaricators!
So... What's with that mask anyways? I've seen it a number of times across various media, but I have no idea what the origin of it is.
That's what plague doctors wore before science understood how contagion of infectious diseases works.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume
The irony is that pandemics unleashed by the Chinese never take hold in America, where the contagion is quickly quarantined and snuffed out.