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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 336484" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>Midwestmom, If I had a penny for every person I know who moved over the border from me to you SPECIFICALLY for medical help - Id be a rich person. </p><p></p><p>Dental on Medicaid is a bad joke here. When my kids were younger, well, me & husband on Medicare.the kids for a while had no insurance, becuz our soc sec put us just a couple dollars above the income cutoff for them to get Medicaid.then they did get Medicaide thru Kidcare.& yeah they technically had dental. we drove 200 miles......to a much less affluent area, much less populated.and only 1 of my kids could be seen per month. Then, our school had a dental school student come visit our public school for checks of the kids teeth- and whoa was I angry. It was a week after one of my kids had been to the Medicaide dentist, but the dental school student called cps for dental/medical neglect. Apparently the Medicaide dentist didnt REALLY do anything, just sat the kids in a chair, poked around and grabbed the little money Medicaide paid. </p><p></p><p>Grandson is going to be a year old in 2 weeks. medicaide still has not covered ANY of the preg bills....PCs credit rateing is trashed, ALL thhose bills, from her hyperemesis, IVs inpatient stays & liver issues from preg all still remain unpaid by Medicaide. IF she pays anything on those bills, Medicaide will not reimburse. If she doesnt pay, the providers refuse to see you in their offices becuz of outstanding unpaid balances. So yuou land in the ER. BUT the ER has you sign & acknowledge they ONLY stabilize and do not diagnosis or treat except treatment to stabilize......they recently do not even set a broken bone. They send you to the ortho---& all the orthos decline gov ins. </p><p></p><p>Yes, I walk providers thru ChampVA- guilt them into accepting it and being a provider......but once they find out how little they get.....(its very similar to Medicare) they get discouraged and ....suddenly theres no available appointments etc when you try to get in. </p><p></p><p>As for husband.........the VA takes care of him.....in an emergency they are supposed to ay where ever he does go but............VA so far has paid nothing for his heart attack in Aug...........not a penny yet. In a smaller town where the ambulances budgets are not large.......well, some of our smaller towns in our county has closed their emergency services becuz they simply have no money to run ambulances firetrucks police cars etc. Now those small towns use county services, & their wait time for help in an emergency is MUCH longer. Not good in a true critical emergency. My town still has adequete paramedics, firetrucks & police. whew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 336484, member: 1697"] Midwestmom, If I had a penny for every person I know who moved over the border from me to you SPECIFICALLY for medical help - Id be a rich person. Dental on Medicaid is a bad joke here. When my kids were younger, well, me & husband on Medicare.the kids for a while had no insurance, becuz our soc sec put us just a couple dollars above the income cutoff for them to get Medicaid.then they did get Medicaide thru Kidcare.& yeah they technically had dental. we drove 200 miles......to a much less affluent area, much less populated.and only 1 of my kids could be seen per month. Then, our school had a dental school student come visit our public school for checks of the kids teeth- and whoa was I angry. It was a week after one of my kids had been to the Medicaide dentist, but the dental school student called cps for dental/medical neglect. Apparently the Medicaide dentist didnt REALLY do anything, just sat the kids in a chair, poked around and grabbed the little money Medicaide paid. Grandson is going to be a year old in 2 weeks. medicaide still has not covered ANY of the preg bills....PCs credit rateing is trashed, ALL thhose bills, from her hyperemesis, IVs inpatient stays & liver issues from preg all still remain unpaid by Medicaide. IF she pays anything on those bills, Medicaide will not reimburse. If she doesnt pay, the providers refuse to see you in their offices becuz of outstanding unpaid balances. So yuou land in the ER. BUT the ER has you sign & acknowledge they ONLY stabilize and do not diagnosis or treat except treatment to stabilize......they recently do not even set a broken bone. They send you to the ortho---& all the orthos decline gov ins. Yes, I walk providers thru ChampVA- guilt them into accepting it and being a provider......but once they find out how little they get.....(its very similar to Medicare) they get discouraged and ....suddenly theres no available appointments etc when you try to get in. As for husband.........the VA takes care of him.....in an emergency they are supposed to ay where ever he does go but............VA so far has paid nothing for his heart attack in Aug...........not a penny yet. In a smaller town where the ambulances budgets are not large.......well, some of our smaller towns in our county has closed their emergency services becuz they simply have no money to run ambulances firetrucks police cars etc. Now those small towns use county services, & their wait time for help in an emergency is MUCH longer. Not good in a true critical emergency. My town still has adequete paramedics, firetrucks & police. whew. [/QUOTE]
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