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Originally Posted by will76
nothing, when dealing with the government is easy. But, she did get coverage.
I am aware that they make you jump through hoops for those type of programs, medicade, disability, etc. They typically deny about 70% of the disability claims.
Now imagine having to deal with the government for every medical procedure you might ever need to have if govt run health care was for everyone. I am thankful I can pay for my own insurance. I am happy paying for it each month so I don't have to deal with the govt when it comes to my health.
If I had no choice because i was poor, or disabled or old, I would just have to deal with and be glad it was there instead of nothing. But I am glad I don't have to deal with them.
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She did eventually get coverage, but the only reason she got it was because she was found to be disabled by a panel of doctors. Had she not been found to be disabled she wouldn't have gotten it. My point of the post is that you kind of made it out like anyone who is poor can get on medicaid, that isn't the case. there are a lot of poor people who will not qualify for medicaid simply because they are also not very ill while being poor and if they do qualify there is good chance that some or all of any income they do have will be taken by the government as a form of payment of the medicaid.
As far as government run health care I can say this. My mom now has medicare and she has what they call a supplemental policy which is basically a second insurance policy, but most of it is paid by medicare. She is also on the medicare prescription drug plan. She goes to just about any doctor she wants, has no trouble getting prescriptions filled and twice has had to see a specialist and there was no problem getting it. It actually seems to run pretty smoothly. I'm not saying any plan that would be 100% run by the government would run as smoothly, but this does seem to run pretty well.