Name:   copperline - Subject:   Insurance for Everyone Date:   6/26/2017 9:24:06 AM

Well, it looks like you guys are convinced that nothing bad will happen when deep Medicaid cuts come out of Washington over the next few years.... churches will pay for the care that the poor needs, MD's will pony up all over the country to make free care happen for 20 million people predicted to lose their coverage.   Nursinghomes will decide to keep patients no longer covered by Medicaid just out of the goodness of their hearts.   The State of Alabama will easily make up for the shortfall of federal dollars in Medicaid while keeping our taxes the lowest in the nation.   Hospitals won't need their billing departments, and everyone will be happy.   

Magical thinking.   

Here's one more for you to chew on.   There are millions of vets who are not eligible for VA services.  They don't have service connected injuries and don't qualify.  However, many of them have fallen on hard times and quite a few of them are on Medicaid.   You will be cutting quite a few of them off as well.   Any qualms about treating our veterans so badly?   

Of course, any free-loading deadbeat is just like any other free-loading deadbeat... except when they are used as heroic examples of American Patriotism.

I am amazed at the lack of humanitarian concern you guys like to display.   Especially those of you who are already live on your government-provided health and retirement income benefits.