Canadians are outliving Americans with Cystic Fibrosis, in some cases, by as much as a decade

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VGPolyglot said:

sc94597 said:

Absolutely not, medicaid works quite fine in providing poor people with basic care at no cost. I grew up on it. Besides a little extra work finding doctors who accepted it, it works fine, in fact often better than the care provided in other systems, because we can focus on the poor and not give subsidies to the middle class. In the United States people with medicaid can get dental work, and eye care whilst these cost extra in other countries.

What? My aunt and uncle are classified as low income, and they were not able to have subsidized health care until just a few years ago. Even now, my aunt and uncle are in fear of losing their health care plan.

Medicaid is distributed on the state level. In my state there are cutoffs for a single person household at $1,360 /month (it increases every year) and for a four person household at $2,800 / month.  If one has an infant, they could make up to $3,200 /month and still qualify for medicaid.

This matches the poverty rate in the U.S quite fine (the percentiles for the income are 15% (for single household) to 30%(for four person household and the Federal poverty estimation is 14.5% of the population.)

About 20% of the population gets Medicaid when only 14.5% are below the poverty line (disabled people also qualify.) So, it seems to be working well.

50% of the population gets subsidies of any kind.