After SPIN! Video: Should NC expand Medicaid?
Published June 19, 2018
Medicaid Expansion. The Legislature in the Commonwealth of Virginia just voted to expand their Medicaid program. North Carolina remains a hold-out; should we look at Medicaid expansion in North Carolina – or should we look at new ideas to provide health care coverage to working families – that isn’t a part of the Affordable Care Act. What are the answers to affordable, quality care for low-income North Carolinians?
June 19, 2018 at 9:46 am
Richard L Bunce says:
IF you expand Medicaid then the families with household income between 100% and 138% will be moved from their quality private healthcare insurance plan, lose their premium deduction, lose their cost share reduction coverage and be dumped into a very flawed Medicaid plan with limit provider access. Of course NC should NOT expand Medicaid.
June 22, 2018 at 9:53 am
Mandy Smith says:
I retired from 21 years at Department of Social Services as a Medicaid caseworker. I can assure you there are way, Way too many people on Medicaid now and they are the wrong people to be qualified for Medicaid. I've never understood a parent or grandparent getting full Medicaid just because they have a child on Medicaid. I am totally in favor of children having Medicaid but their parents need to work & have their own health care.
The income limits for adult Medicaid, meaning Medicaid for aged citizens is pitifully low. Very hard for our retired people to get Medicaid, these would be our citizens that worked enough to receive Social Security, the people we should do more to look after. The formula for calculating a deductible for these people has not changed in over 25 years. Unbelievable.
