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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36261)	4/28/2014 10:46:46 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) of 42652

My son has been on a Medicaid insurance plan for years. When he has needed a new provider, I go look in its online directory. I assure you, even when I select for "accepts new patients" the first thing I tell them is he has HUSKY insurance and do they accept new patients. They don't always. i-node is correct. 96 or whatever it was seems excessive, perhaps, but not entirely unbelievable. "A 2011 Rutgers University study estimates that 100,000 more New Jersey residents will be eligible for Medicaid in 2014, which currently covers about 1.3 million people. That’s about a 7.7 percent increase in people eligible." politifact.com So, perhaps 1.3 million people in a state of close to 8.9 million people were on a Medicaid health insurance plan before Obamacare, or roughly 15% of the population. The doctors in NJ probably had all the Medicaid patients they could afford on their books. the medical community is not going to turn away millions of new customers..... Doctors lose money on every Medicaid patient they treat. But they'll make it up in volume, right?

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