Signing up the homeless for health care, one at a time

Monterey Herald ^ | 01/07/2014 | Anna Gorman

[artichokegrower]

Outreach and enrollment among the homeless is challenging, in large part because many are addicted to drugs or are mentally ill, and they distrust government and public programs. Homeless people also are transient and usually lack permanent mailing addresses.

[artichokegrower]

I guess this is where that no preexisting illness clause comes into play. Be a bum, wino, drug addict, it doesn't matter you get the same access (if not better) to health care as do the responsible hard working taxpayers. Remember the story of the grasshopper and the ant. In Obama's world it ends with the grasshopper eating the ant.

[jsanders2001]

I’m waiting for Jesus to show up and use the magnifying glass on the grasshopper...: )

[Steely Tom]

They used to be housed in insane asylums.

[Mr. K]

I am surprised they are going out to find and enroll them.

Watch soon for “auto-enrool’ meaning they will enroll you themselves.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So you’re still living in a gutter, but at least now you have a Medicaid card.

Swell.

[jimmyo57]

“Homeless people also are transient and usually lack permanent mailing addresses.”

That’s profound!

[DJ MacWoW]

"Of course, I want people to have health care," Obama supporter Cindy Vinson said.

"I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."

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[bill1952]

Its actually WAY better from an economic viewpoint.
The deductible is ZERO.
Try that with your obamacare!

[wildbill]

You might wonder at the administration’s belief that the majority of the poor will eventually enrol via a computer site.

I’d bet that many if not most are not computer literate and those who are probably have to fight over computer time at the local library with those wanting to see porno.