COMMENTS:
Voted : Make health care affordable to poor people?
Cancer patients without health insurance are 60 percent more likely to die.
Voted : We already have Medicaid
and it is easily available to "poor people". Of course, ideally, everyone who wants health care should have it! (A few people will never seek health care.)
In my state a Gold Card is given to people who need food stamps and other assistance. The Gold Card gets them into the hospital (Lyndon B Johnson Hospital, a very good hospital, is one). Free Clinics, who treat all who come in, are numerous. These clinics are well-staffed, too.
But you have to be poor to receive Medicaid, my father was not poor but he was not rich either and when his job stopped providing full coverage on health insurance it was a financial nightmare.
I was on many medications costing hundreds of dollars a month. He was making too much to receive Medicaid and having a son with a Pre-existing condition, not enough to afford private insurance.
Some states do better than others concerning free clinics and such, but if you live in one of the states that don’t have, what's a person to do?
Search socialsecurity75 on this site, his story tells all.
I guess I should have specified not rich but not poor enough for Medicaid. That includes many of those that lost their jobs during this recession.
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