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To: LindyBill who wrote (120779)	6/19/2005 6:59:14 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793790

medicaid. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Mississippi have either cut benefits or enrollments. pa. needs to cut some benefits. they still give support to families of disabled children regardless of income. We have millionaires collecting medicaid allowances for their disabled child. same with families making over $100,000. I see no need for general public to support through medicaid to families who have incomes and ability to pay for medical coverage. Rendell refused to close this loop hole in pa. yet blames bush for cut backs. I think rendell should get serious about how he spends the money before looking to Washington.

To: LindyBill who wrote (120779)	6/19/2005 7:09:03 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793790

the middle class benefits from Medicaid, either directly through nursing home payments for their elderly parents. this is the biggest rip off to the general public. It is not only the middle class but upper middle and rich who move money from mom and dad and put them on the state medicaid program. What makes them entitled to keep mom and dad's money and we support them for the next ten to twenty years. To fix medicaid laws should be set that if at any time with x decades mom and pop go on medicaid and there was a transfer of money to their children then the children will be responsible for support. 1/3 of all expenses for medicaid in Penn. is elderly. I wonder how many of those are not really qualified for medicaid if they couldn't transfer wealth to their children?