From the LVRJ: Even with the advent of health care reform, the director of the state
agency that will implement parts of the Affordable Care Act said on
Wednesday that 10 percent of the state population, or more than 313,000
residents, will remain uninsured in 2020.
Mike Willden, director
of the state Department of Health and Human Services, told a legislative
committee that the law sometimes called "Obamacare" will not cover
undocumented residents and that some people simply will pay penalties
rather than enroll in available programs.
Willden also told the
Legislature's Committee on Health Care that he does not yet know what it
will cost the state if Nevada decides to expand its Medicaid program in
2014, when the federal law goes into effect.
Under the Supreme
Court's June decision, states have the option to offer this free health
care program to citizens earning less than 138 percent of poverty-level
incomes, or slightly more than $15,000 for an individual.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has not decided whether he will back the expansion.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/state-official-10-percent-of-nevadans-will-remain-uninsured-under-health-care-reform-167896455.html
Crap, we have that many illegals in the State?
Well, ObamaCare nor any other program should not include illegals. My solution has always been: save their lives and stabilize the illegals medical problems. If they need more medical care after that and they cannot pay, send them back to their country of origin via a med evac plane if necessary, for further treatment. Then bill the country for their health care.
As far the people paying fines, that money goes into the general budget not into health care- brilliant.
And no, Sandoval or any other governor should not increase the Medicaid unless they have the money to pay for it without raising taxes or cutting services elsewhere.
As long as illegals overwhelm our health care system, ObamaCare or any other medical program will not solve the health care crisis where most hospitals lose money and many doctors are willing to leave the medical profession because of the lack of reimbursement from the government.
Thanks to Obama and company, we are really going to suffer and perhaps become a 3rd world country when it comes to medical care. Mother Theresa, if she were still alive, would be coming to the U.S. to help those who will be ruined by Obama.
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