1. La Desconexión entre la Elegibilidad de Medicaid y el Nivel Federal de Pobreza (FPL).
El Nivel Federal de Pobreza (FPL) es percibido como una métrica obsoleta y extremadamente baja, que no refleja la realidad de los costos de vida y la atención médica. La elegibilidad para Medicaid, especialmente en estados con expansión bajo la ACA, se extiende hasta el 138% del FPL, reconociendo que un ingreso ligeramente superior al umbral de pobreza no garantiza la capacidad de pagar un seguro médico privado.
- The federal poverty line is meaningless for who needs medicaid. You can be at 200 the poverty level and still be barely able to afford daily living.
- The federal poverty line is 15,650 for a single person. 133 of that the medicaid expansion cutoff is 20,815. Now youre gonna tell me someone making 21k a year has room to pay hundreds of dollars a month for health insurance?
- The poverty line is like 16k a year. You think someone making 17k a year can afford health care?
- The income level for a family to be at poverty line is less than the cutoff income level to qualify for aca and force you to use medicaid.
2. Medicaid como Herramienta Crucial contra la Pobreza.
Lejos de ser un programa para "aprovechados", se argumenta que Medicaid es un salvavidas económico que evita que millones de personas caigan en la pobreza o la bancarrota debido a los costos médicos. La discrepancia entre el número de beneficiarios y el número oficial de personas en la pobreza se utiliza como evidencia de la eficacia del programa.
- Medicaid helps keep people out of poverty. Hes basically saying more people should live in poverty. Sociopathic.
- Sounds like theres around 35 million people being spared from poverty because they have medicaid.
- The health inclusive poverty measure, which treats health care as a basic need like food shelter, shows medicaid kept 15m people above the poverty line in 2024, making it the third most impactful anti-poverty program after socialsecurity medicare.
- If you cut their medicaid, they will fall below the poverty line. You dont take the life preserver off of someone just because theyre no longer drowning if theyre still in the fucking water.
- The goal is to take the 35 million who are on medicaid but not in poverty and make sure they are in poverty.
3. El Impacto de los Recortes Propuestos y los Requisitos de Trabajo.
Las propuestas de reducir la financiación de Medicaid y añadir requisitos de trabajo o copagos son vistas como un castigo a la pobreza. Estos cambios no solo expulsarían a millones de personas de la cobertura, sino que también amenazan la viabilidad financiera de hospitales rurales y residencias de ancianos, donde Medicaid es una fuente crucial de ingresos.
- Medicaid loss will shut nursing homes and hospitals. That will harm everyone.
- Most of the people on medicaid are working and so badly paid they hit the fed poverty level requirement.
- Medicaid recipients with earnings at or above the federal poverty line would have to pay significant out-of-pocket expenses for their health care coverage all for billionaire and corporate tax breaks.
- Work requirements dont fight poverty, they gatekeep survival. Most recipients already work or cant due to caregiving, illness, or barriers.
- The bill would require states that have expanded medicaid to charge enrollees up to 35 for some services if their incomes are between the federal poverty level this year, 15,650 for an individual and 138 of that amount 21,597.
4. La Población Beneficiaria de Medicaid más Allá de los Adultos Sanos en Pobreza.
Se subraya que la narrativa de que Medicaid está lleno de "hombres sanos y perezosos" ignora que una gran parte de los 70 millones de beneficiarios son niños, personas mayores y personas con discapacidades, muchos de los cuales no están sujetos a los límites de ingresos tradicionales o tienen necesidades médicas crónicas que agotarían rápidamente cualquier ingreso.
- Poverty medicaid. 72 m on medicaid because it also covers kids, new moms, seniors disablednot just the 37 m below the poverty line. Apples and oranges.
- Did you take into consideration those people who are on medicaid due to a disability, like children, veterans, and elderly? with a qualifying disability, you do not have to live in poverty to get medicaid.
- Nearly half of the people on medicaid are kids. That so many kids in this country live in poverty in this country is a disgusting stat in itself.
- Medicare doesnt pay for nursing homes people. The reason so many nursing home people are on medicaid is because its so expensive and not covered by typical insurance you need long term care insurance. So, people spend down their assets, go into poverty, just to get medicaid to pay for it.