Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $11,000 is too much
Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $11,000 is too much
http://www.delawareonline.com/viewart/20120815/BUSINESS13/308150023/Anti-Medicaid-states-Earning-11-000-too-much
MIAMI Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough.
She makes about $15,000 a year, supporting her daughter and unemployed husband. She thought shed be able to get health insurance after the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obamas health care law.
Then she heard that her own governor wont agree to the federal plan to extend Medicaid coverage to people like her in two years. So she expects to remain uninsured, struggling to pay for her blood pressure medicine.
You fall through the cracks and theres nothing you can do about it, said the 52-year-old home health aide. It makes me feel like garbage, like the American dream, my dream in my homeland is not being accomplished.
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In South Carolina, a yearly income of $16,900 is too much for Medicaid for a family of three. In Florida, $11,000 a year is too much. In Mississippi, $8,200 a year is too much. In Louisiana and Texas, earning more than just $5,000 a year makes you ineligible for Medicaid.
Governors in those five states have said theyll reject the Medicaid expansion underpinning Obamas health law after the Supreme Courts decision gave states that option. Many of those hurt by the decision are working parents who are poor but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid