1782 Ohio's Medicaid is broken
says State Auditor, Betty D. Montgomery. The $9.5 billion program serves 1.7 million blind, disabled, poor children and poor elderly without supplemental insurance or about 40% of our state budget. Forty percent of the state budget for 10% of the population. Only 1/5 of these Medicaid costs are coming from our state budget--the rest is coming from the federal government, also known as your wallet if you live in North Dakota or Michigan.There have been numerous studies and recommendations supposedly being implemented, but I think they've all gone into the CYA file.
We have friends who live in Illinois and keep their mother in a nursing home in Ohio on Medicaid because apparently Illinois is worse off.
Tell me again why you think the government should be in control of our health care system. How much do you suppose graft, corruption, over charging, cronyism, nepotism and lack of oversight are adding to the real cost of taking care of the poor and elderly? How much more for the working healthy population?
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When my grandfather was in the hospital when I was 12 we received a copy of the bill that was supposed to be sent to his medical insurance. The hospital had mis-spelled his name to read "Cloud Fisher." Living in MT near an Indian Reservation, it was assumed this was an Indian name and therefore the bill would be paid by the reservation (ie. our tax dollars). The bill had over $1000 worth of things that didn't have anything to do with my grandfather's stay. Crutches, bandages and other things that had nothing to do with the cancer treatment he was receiving. He called the hospital and they sent out a revised bill for "Claud Fisher" and all those charges had disappeared.
What an interesting story! Thanks for sharing.
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