Thursday, February 25, 2010

Coverage Through Medicaid?

President Obama just alleged that individuals in Medicaid have access to coverage when they get sick.  Perhaps he should actually talk to some Medicaid recipients, one of whom took a view far from the President’s in a Wall Street Journal piece: “You feel so helpless thinking, something’s wrong with this child and I can’t even get her into a doctor….When we had real insurance, we would call and come in at the drop of a hat.”  And even a Consumers Union spokesman, formerly the head of a state Medicaid program, recently called a Medicaid card a “hunting license” to try and find a doctor that would see them.  Not “real insurance” and a “hunting license” to try and find a doctor – this is the basis for the President’s health “reform…”