Posted on 10/27/2019 11:51:39 AM PDT by spintreebob
Before 2017, the national uninsured rate for children declined for nearly 10 years; however, the share of uninsured children suddenly increased that year (the most recent year available). In Georgia, the number of children without health insurance increased by 21,000. There are many reasons that progress to covering more children has stalled, including cuts to outreach efforts that help ensure that families enroll their children in Medicaid or PeachCare (Georgia’s version of the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP), a lack of funding for marketplace subsidies, changing federal rules governing the marketplace or immigrant parents choosing not to enroll their children in Medicaid or PeachCare due to a fear that it might jeopardize a relative’s immigration status.
Another reason is that Georgia children and pregnant women who are lawful permanent residents (LPRs or “green card” holders) typically must wait five years after they gain this status to be eligible for Medicaid or PeachCare. As the state explores options to reduce maternal mortality and infant mortality, Georgia should remove the waiting period to provide health insurance to more children while also increasing access to prenatal care and other critical services for pregnant women in the state. In adopting this option, Georgia would join 24 states that have removed the five-year waiting period for both LPR children and LPR pregnant women, including Southern states like Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The five-year waiting period for LPRs was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which placed limitations on funding health coverage for immigrants. When the CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2009 was signed into law on February 4, 2009, it included several policies to get more children enrolled in health care coverage.
For example, states can eliminate the waiting period for children and pregnant women who are LPRs and meet Medicaid and CHIP eligibility requirements. Georgia’s Medicaid agency can take this option by submitting a state plan amendment to the federal government for both Medicaid and PeachCare. Doing so would help more of Georgia’s vulnerable children and families access healthcare and decrease the rising number of uninsured children. Most of the expense would not be borne by the state. The federal government covers 67 percent of Medicaid costs and 89 percent of PeachCare costs. Eliminating Waiting Period Helps Children and Pregnant Women Access Necessary Care Many LPRs who have held a green card for less than five years would be able to access care under this option.In the five-year period from 2012 to 2017, 156,046 Georgi In a residents gained lawful permanent resident status.
This includes 29,759 children under age 18 and 53,723 women between age 18 and 54, the closest range available for childbearing age. Many of these LPR children and pregnant women who meet the income requirements for Medicaid and PeachCare would receive access to care if the waiting period were eliminated. For example, children up to the age of 21 and LPR pregnant women could enroll in Medicaid, and children up to age 19 could receive PeachCare, giving these potential enrollees access to critical care.
Can you throw in free cabernet & fresh shrimp for life? If so, I’m in ; )
Now the damn liberals demand that we not only welcome illegals but give them more benefits than American citizens.
Real simple: if you’re not skilled and educated enough to hold a job that has health benefits, I don’t want you immigrating here.
Exactly. I certainly do not care one whit.
Best advice I can give is GET OUT!
Ok, you get a free ebt card for that! and also, since you are a conservative, plus you should get one thousand dollars per month, tax free, for life!
And how about a free cell ohone, and a free ford gt40 replica! With as much free time as you want at the local race track!
Liberals love increasing taxes so why not let the taxes increase for liberals?
Win win!!
My mother in law came over legally when she was a teen. Came from Italy. Worked in a sweatshop & saved money to bring her family over. Married a 1st generation American from Sicily. She is a pillar of her community & church.
It’s not like that now for a lot of people. She would have been mortified to take assistance.
Give to our people first!
Agree.
We get the same speech in Tennessee on Tenn-care..what is not mentioned is the Dem Gov Phil Breseden kicked Tennessean’s off Tenn-care to put illegals on it. Medicaid is 20% of the 100% of a doctor or hospital bill. The other 80% is Ins or Medicare. Both pay below private ins rates. More Fraud too.
When I see my Doctor, I pay a $95 office visit only for most things. I see her about 1-2 times a year, 12 stitches $500. Health Care is actually pretty damned cheap when you pay for it yourself.
Prescription for Vicodin
Insurance- $10 copay, insrance is billed $100 and pays $40-$60 to pharmacy
NO Insurance- $20 and I walk out with them
ONE BIG FRIKKIN RACKET!!
Exactly.
Premiums pay not only the doctor & medicine, but also many layers of employees in between— insurance salesmen, medical coders, bureaucrats, plus all THEIR staffs, bookeepers, office supplies, buildings, postage...
We maybe need a requirement for catastrophic health coverage only. Everything else should be payable out of pocket & much cheaper in the long run.
If all these mothers and infants are really dying in Georgia, why isn’t the news-backed up
Georgia has one of the worst mortality rates in the nation which is worse than most of the world.
Guess what? The mortality rate of those with government welfare is extremely high. The mortality rate of those with no insurance is extremely low. For those who have private health insurance, mortality rate is moderately good.
There are quirks. Maternal and infant mortality is closely linked to lifestyle (alcohol, tobacco, vaping, drugs, promiscuous sex). They have an added factor. Moms who have babies when age 20 to 33 rarely have mortality. Nature did not plan for women to have their first baby when they themselves are a baby. And Nature did not plan that moms would wait til they are 38 to have their first baby. Count that also as lifestyle.
But the fact to take home is that those on government welfare have the high mortality.
Everyone has access to healthcare they PAY for their healthcare insurance am I missing something here??? PAY FOR YOUR INSURANCE!!!!!
Thanks for the info-it isn’t surprising-when I lived and worked in the city, more than a few of my comp clients were welfare queens doing drugs...
I had my cub at 17, did Lamaze 12 hrs later back home, no problems-of course I wasn’t using welfare and had military insurance, so that probably made a difference...
A feature, not a flaw.
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