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I wasn't going to even perk up until I read this ignorant comment. Insurance fraud? Insurance fraud?
You must have no idea what Medicaid is.

There are, what is it they are telling us in the presidential campaign ads these days? 40 million Americans who have health insurance coverage. And I suppose those of us who are "lucky" enough to qualify for Medicaid are not counted under that rubric. After all, in every large city there's a dingy family clinic that accepts Medicaid patients. And, while technically all hospitals are required to treat patients in deathly trauma, Medicaid will reimburse the hospital for some of the expense. Up to 25 times per year, in fact, a Medicaid patient can go to the emergency room or see a doctor. And our medications--as long as the prescriptions are written by a doctor in the same state are covered in full.

Actually, the prescription coverage is just about the only thing Medicaid has to offer. Medicare has no such prescription coverage, I can't imagine anything like "Medicare prescription fraud," the idea is as ludicrous as "BCBS prescription fraud." But Medicaid prescription fraud could be most enticing, and do you know why?

Not only because the medicines are covered at 100%, but because you have to be sick, disabled to qualify for Medicaid. You also have to be broke, which makes it even more disgusting to be played as a pawn in a game amongst some pharmacists and doctors to see who can stuff their closets with the most expensive shoes and line their kitchen windows with Longaberger baskets, but most importantly, you need to have medical bills that are completely out of control and you must have a thousand dollar a month (at least) medicine cabinet.

Without Medicaid, you would die. You might just die anyway, despite the best medicines there are to offer, because Medicaid really only has enough money in it to pay for prescriptions, but nothing more than most rudimentary of actual medical care. Still, you know you are lucky to have it You are thankful. I am thankful.

I am thankful to all of you who contribute to the funds that allow me to fill the prescriptions that keep me alive. I think there lies evidence of great good in the world.

I have no respect for those that would steal the money that you worked hard for, and probably cursed when you saw it come out of your paycheck, but maybe felt a little better when you realized how much good just a few cents of it does for so many of us, I have no respect for the people who would steal that money and rob us of the connection we might have made. Those people will leave Medicaid patients, or those who should be medicaid patients, dying in the street or in shelters, and they will push taxes ever higher just to try to keep the rest of going on same plodding flatline.

Honestly, folks. This is Medicine we are talking about. There is no such thing as innocent until proven guilty. All medical practitioners are supposed to be our caretakers. If they mess up, we can lose an eye, an arm,a foot, a child, a mother. "First, do no harm." I believe there would be no medicaid fraud charges without evidence. I believe I've already illustrated how very, very harmful these actions are.

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