As Medicaid Shrinks, Clinics for the Poor Are Trying to Survive – yahoo!/NYT
“Since last spring, Medicaid enrollment has dropped by almost 10 million, including around 4 million children, according to researchers at Georgetown University. States have removed people for a variety of reasons, including for changes in income and age. Some people have been dropped because they did not return paperwork. Others have lost coverage because of technical errors, including computer glitches.
“The loss of reimbursements for millions of patients has contributed to an already difficult financial picture for facilities that treat the poor: Unless Congress reaches a funding agreement, nearly $6 billion for federally financed health clinics, which serve more than 30 million people, most of them low-income, could lapse in early March.”
US taxpayer dollars at work
Dear Congress: Your choice. Dust to dust? Spend a few billion $$$ more to kill/injure poor kids in Gaza v. $$$ for poor kids’ medical care in your own country? What’s a few billion anyway? ‘Budget dust’ in a $1.7 trillion federal deficit.