Reply #5: Medicaid is not the same as Medicare.

[revcarol]

Medicaid is for the indigent, the destitute elders, those who have no stocks and bonds or savings, those who only own one car of a very low value, those who cannot by any stretch of the imagination pay the deductibles of Medicare or any prescription drugs. You really have to be POOR to get Medicaid, and each state makes its own regulations and supplies 25% of the money expended by each patient.So what
Dean "might" be talking about is the red tape, because the federal government does require certain things, but not enough IMHO. See the understaffing in nursing homes, and states cutting off things like dental, eye,hearing treatment in the states' Medicaid, and also medication for long-term mental health problems.