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Originally Posted by The Boy
Evidently you don't understand how one can qualify for Medicaid. First, you have to demonstrate that you are destitute, so if you earn more than $12,000 per year, you will NOT qualify. If you do qualify, you have to spend all of your assets to no more value than $2,000. Now, if you qualify you are put on a waiting list that could last up to 9 months. So, your safety net is really hard to use.
Not all couples have health insurance, even though the AHA has made it more available than ever before. Pregnancies are also not always planned (of course you know that but your remarks show a certain ignorance of reality) and last of all, the remark was targeted at the Trumpcare proposal that would preclude most pre existing medical conditions from being covered.
You really come across as being a quite heartless person
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Well you seem to know a lot about Medicaid process...speaking from the heart as they say?
Sandy claimed they were broke. I would consider that only possible if they had spent (or lost) all their assets and no source of income (is your definition of broke something less?). Of course at that point it would not be difficult to demonstrate they are destitute.
I agree that not all couples have healthcare. Some would rather spend that money on entertainment, vehicles, cigarettes, booze, drugs, or maybe a fancy apartment on the miracle mile...But I do not agree that that the Obammacare has made it more available, as it was always available, just some chose to spend their money on something else. Medicaid has always been their for those who could not truly afford it.
No, pregnancies are not always planned, but that is not the same as "pregnancies should not be planned".
I know my wife and I decided when we would start a family, and it was not until we could afford one (we got together when I was 18 and she was 16, we moved in together when I was 19 and she was 17, lived together for 3 years (she was in senior year of high school), we got married, we had our first child 7 years after the honeymoon, we have been married for 32 years, our youngest graduates this Friday from UM !) Truth was; we were still nervous then, because you never know if you are going to get a child with special needs...but we had health insurance the whole time and we paid for it out of our wages.
Pre existing conditions are COVERED by Trumpcare. The states would have to opt out. Stop whining about Trump, and start looking at your state legislators if you don't think they can be trusted!
I am a business MAN. I don't think my wife, kids, or friends (many I have had for over 40 years and still get together often) would consider me as heartless.