Medicaid inequity
Submitted by Loring Jones on August 17, 2006 - 8:06pm.
--- Justice & Peace
Doctor reimbursement for treating Medicaid patients is cut in every new budget. As a result fewer and fewer doctors are accepting new Medicaid patients. Where are the poorest of the poor to turn? Someone please suggest some good ideas for uniting to pressure our lawmakers to reverse this trend. I am neither a doctor nor on Medicaid. I just care.
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It says a lot about how we
It says a lot about how we take care of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
I have a client with mental illness who got her allowed 16 appointments with a therapist and now must wait til next year for paid services. I continue to see her but cannot take any more Medicaid patients as I have a family to support.
If she was pregnant or parenting she would get more-but she recognizes that she cannot take care of a child at this time.
Apply for disability? She has been over a year since applying. It was denied,appealed, and is being reviewed.
Where are the church groups to say this is wrong? Where are the church groups who help the poor, the homeless, those who cannot afford their medicines? They are out there but few are Catholic. We seem too worried about our liturgical practices.