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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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If insurance coverage is the primary determinant in getting adequate health care, people on Medicaid should be at the head of the line for good outcomes.
To the extent that having insurance coverage results in better health care, the Medicaid population should be doing very well.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Health Coverage and Uninsured : Data items available include insurance status; nonelderly uninsured; nonelderly with employer coverage; nonelderly with Medicaid; and private sector coverage.
The primary objective of paying certain health insurance premiums is to reduce Medicaid expenditures by enrolling Medicaid eligibles in or continuing existing health insurance coverage so that Medicaid becomes a secondary payor.
That program, had the legislature authorized it, would have subsidized private health insurance to uninsured people earning up to 250 percent of the FPL who were without coverage for the previous 12 months or had just left Medicaid.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Using the state Medicaid agency rather than health insurance purchasing cooperatives to administer benchmark coverage would make sense in states that already were enrolling Medicaid children into managed care statewide and wanted to achieve the same level of program and fiscal oversight for CHIP.
This class explores health insurance options for persons needing coverage before Medicare eligibility and Medicare supplemental insurance options following Medicare enrollment.
The panel additionally encouraged broader public access to acupuncture treatment by urging insurance companies, Federal and state health insurance programs including Medicare and Medicaid, and other third party payers to expand their coverage to include appropriate acupuncture treatments.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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We must improve Medicaid benefits and broader health insurance coverage for uninsured children, and oppose efforts to sacrifice good coverage for wider, inadequate coverage.
For health care, we advocate that states be allowed to extend Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance Program coverage to uninsured parents of children eligible for these programs and provide the funding for it.
Sources of health insurance coverage also vary--51 percent of those with the most severe disabilities are on Medicare or Medicaid compared to 4 percent of those with no disabilities.
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