Medicare and Medicaid are cutting/will cut vision and dental plans in some places. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really grateful some family members who are elderly/disabled, and a few younger members who are now on disablility because of illness are able to get it!
Sure I’m grateful for these programs for their benefit, because they really need them now. But one of my daughters, who is medically disabled for now, already lost her vision benefits. She just got a letter that tells her that in the fall, she’ll lose her dental plan also! She used these plans wisely when she had them, but she’ll lose on these as well as the ones that abuse them!
What else are they going to cut?
Are you saying that she was on Medicaid and the State is dropping her dental plan? Most states are using this ARRA and CHIPRA time to start adding to their State plans, or revise what they already have. Are you in Utah?
“What else are they going to cut?”
They’ll cut the amount of $$ that doctors get paid to see patients with Medicaid or Medicare.
As a result, more and more doctors/hospitals will stop accepting any kind of Medicaid or Medicare and those folks who have no other insurance, will have a heck of a time finding a doctor/hospital.
At least... until Obama’s socialized medicine kicks in ... then EVERY doctor will be employed by the government, taking government wage. That’s why Obama keeps touting in all his speeches that you won’t have to change doctors, you can keep the same one.
Won’t he appear to be the hero then. /s off