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New Anti-Immigrant Law Chasing "Nonexistent Problem" is Dropping Millions of U.S. Citizens from Medicaid Coverage

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 11:16am.

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A new provision requiring Medicaid applicants to provide "satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship or nationality" may prevent coverage for many of the U.S. citizens who need it the most, according to a letter sent to the General Accountability Office (GAO) by senior House Democrats John Dingell and Henry Waxman.

Applicants must now submit original documents like birth certificates or passports, which millions of low-income citizens do not have, or certified copies, which can incur significant effort, costs, and delays.

The mandate is part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the same law signed by President Bush even though he knew it had not been signed by the House of Representatives, an obviously unconstitutional action recently upheld by a Bush-appointed federal judge.

The letter cites multiple government sources to show that there is not a problem of illegal immigrants improperly receiving Medicaid, yet estimates suggest that agencies and recipients will have to spend a whopping 5,150 years of work hours just to rectify those currently on Medicaid with the new law. "These figures raise serious questions about whether the new requirements can meet a basic cost-benefit test," the letter says. "We may be wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and denying health coverage to large numbers of eligible beneficiaries in order to chase a nonexistent problem."

Meanwhile, 40,000 Georgia residents have been dropped from coverage in just the first few months of the policy, already more than the Congressional Budget Office's estimate that only 35,000 Americans nationwide would be dropped after ten years of implementation. A new study has found that between 3.2 and 4.6 million U.S. born citizens could inappropriately lose Medicaid coverage.

"States are allowed little flexibility for millions of children, adults, and disabled persons, regardless of degree of illness or circumstances," Dingell and Waxman wrote. "For instance, survivors of natural disasters who have lost everything will not qualify for even temporary benefits while searching for original documentation. Children in foster care will still be forced to produce original documentation, though their citizenship status has already been verified by states in order to be eligible for foster care."

The letter requests further GAO investigation into the effects of the law on costs and denied coverage.

Click here to read the letter (pdf)

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People in this country should not need Medicare OR Social Security. They should just go to their local Republican precinct captain, excuse me, Pastor and get some MediPrayer if they are sick and go to him for some faith-based cash when they need money and some faith-based food when they are hungry. There are plenty of cardboard boxes in landfills if they need housing. Those fools should know by now that doctors, hospitals, medicine, food, and housing are only for the wealthy or those that can afford to pay cash in our brave, new, NeoConAmerica. I am really getting tired of hearing from those whiney seniors when a faith-based America should provide for their needs.
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CAN THE MEDICAID RECEPTIONISTS HELP GET THE DOCUMENTS

Submitted by Kathy on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 8:31pm.
I may be misunderstanding the article. If I am not, I hope this helps. But anyone can apply for a copy of their birth certificates with the government agent called Vital Records in their town. As far as I know, it is under 10.00. The medicaid receptionists should be able to help the applicant get their required paperwork. If 10.00 is very hard to come by, then the medicaid receptionists should be able to work something out. For example, if they cannot pay for a copy of their b/c, the medicaid office has the vital records faxed to the medicaid office. Some government employees are some real sassy bitches. Others are just as pleasant as they can be-and they will find out what they can do. Not defending them, but the ones who work with the public do take a lot of abuse.
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Submitted by Chucks_Party on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 5:26pm.
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Precisely What Our Presiden Wants

Submitted by crackerjack on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 4:30pm.
Destroying the commons, the safetry net, the everything else that's not ideologically pure from the right wing, war-mongering perspective, meaning self-help is all that a person is allowed. Unless he's rich, of coure, in which case there'll be plenty of collective support. So, as far as our president' is concerned, what could be better than three-four million people being cut from the Medicaid rolls - "What the heck, they still can pray" is his thinking. Which is quite consistent with his Katrina performance. So what if it costs lives. Lives? Fascists couldn't care less about saving lives, because they don't base their actions on the principle of the golden rule, but that the poor and downtrodden are the blight of the earth, and that the sooner they disappear the better off America (ie the rich and powerful) will be. What we're accelerating towards now is a society in which one somehow either makes it on one's own, plus or minus the help of family & friends, or "watch-out for the undertow." Actually this began during the Reagon years when, as governor, he shut-down California's mental hospitals and tossed psychiatric patients into the streets. What happened was that initially a lot of the formerly hospitalized showed up at atreet corners, confused, begging and, and/or robbed and/or beaten-up.and/or run-over by a car. It didn't take long before there were no formerly hospitalized mental patients standing on street corners no more. Where were they? Gone from this world, that's where. Just like the thousands of New Orleaners, post-Karina, still missing and unaccounted for. What'll stop this slaughter? We the people changing the world, that's what.
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Medicaid Coverage

Submitted by Jaded on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 12:48pm.
To qualify for Medicaid in the first place, applicants have ALWAYS been required to produce birth certificates, copies of which are copied again and kept in the recipient's file. Of course, these files ARE available to re-certify a recipient, but maybe its too much trouble for the clerks to copy old copies ad nauseum? Recipients should never have to "search" for old papers they should KEEP front and center at all times when they are receiving social benefits. Then there are the illegals flooding our Emergency Rooms who by law CANNOT be turned away... They are NOT Medicaid recipients, they are USING our tax dollars which end up supporting their ills. Fine, then, Medicaid, which is STATE governed, is perfectly justified in recertifying all recipients through incontestable proof of US citizenship. While health services are continuing to be exhausted by illegals, change the law at the ERs too. Of course, those changes will never happen since the illegals are necessary to the US economy. Medicaid regulations and the Hipocrates Oath can not change that fact just as more effective border control would ever heal the states' social services problem. I have noticed however, that people who are true Medicaid recipients are responding to this legislation as another fear tactic. BOO!
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Bush bites the hand that fed him

Submitted by Malgoska on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 12:08pm.

Proof: 40,000 Georgians lost Medicaid coverage. Georgia went to Bush - if I am not mistaken: twice.

It is not that I don't feel sorry for the people who cannot afford medical help. I find this to be obscene, that the wealthiest and supposedly most advanced country on the face of the Earth does not care for those who can't care for themselves.

It is that I DO believe in karma.

Voting for Bush was a bad karma, and now it came back to haunt them.

Who's next?

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