Question on Medicaid

[SoutherDem]

I don't understand how the program works. But, I have heard from state to state the coverage differs vastly. One state it may be a very good program and the other lets thousands to go without medical care or with poor coverage. Last week I heard one person say some states allow medicaid for those 55% of property while anothers may cover those over 100% of property. Also, even once you are on the program your care varies and that these differences are the choice of how the state setup and runs its program.

Is it fair to say if a state poor medicaid program it is the states fault and not the federal government's?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. Absolutely fair

States run the program with partial funding from the federal government.

[SoutherDem]

4. I don't mean to sound stupid but I want to make sure I understand.

When the LA Republican Senator said the Medicaid part of ACA bad because of how bad Medicaid is and tell of how many people in his state still has poor or no coverage it isn't because Medicaid is a bad federal program but the way LA chose to setup and runs its program. Correct?

He was really pointing out how his state has failed to protect the poor and not the Federal program, that if LA would spend more money, maybe by taxing the rich, could have a good program. Right?

And when the MSNBC host failed to challenge him on this it was just par for the course in how the "liberal" press questions Republicans. Right?

[HopeHoops]

2. Yes, that's exactly how it is.

[MineralMan]

3. It's absolutely fair to say that.

Many of the states that are talking about not enacting the new Medicaid plans are the same ones that have terrible Medicaid plans now. There is a real racial issue involved with that, if you look at the states themselves. It's almost as though they're trying to force poor people to leave the state or die an early death. In most of these states, the poor people are predominantly minorities.