Comments on: Pennsylvania Medicaid’s Cost “Savings”

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:58:18 +0000

A follow up to my comment: we are both receiving social security and our amount combined is about $1100 a month. We had medicaid for 1 year and didn’t use it at all. We aren’t the type to lounge in an ER. We’ve never asked for it, but, it came to us when my husband turned 65 and got on medicare. I never wanted it.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:43:13 +0000

Here’s an easier way to save MONEY. “Lose” the paperwork and send the client a letter that says they did not comply in a designated time and their medicaid benefits will be taken from them. Happened to me and I called my caseworker this morning and guess what? No call back. So, if my self or my husband get sick or hurt, we are going to the ER and get treated w/o any sort of coverage, that we are legally entitled to receive. This will cost more in the long run for PA.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:22:38 +0000

Maybe I should go read the finer print in the proposal, but would this not just invite the abuse of various medicaid recipients to, say,go the the ER with some simple, time-curable virus, or random made up health condition…just to make a buck or 200??

By: ***

*** — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:28:30 +0000

It sounds like this was an inefficient application of the incentive. It’s highest potential is in the area of controllable conditions, and it must be applied with a systems view to decrease overall consumption of services.

By: Don Miller

Don Miller — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:31:15 +0000

Did he not take a basic Micro Economics course in College? Or did he never think that it applies in the real world.

Any time people think something is free or low-cost, they will use more of it.

Now this guy plans on not only to give poor people free health care, but to pay them to get it?

In general, that is part of the problem with health care in general. Because Insurance hid the costs from us for so long, we began to demand more and more of it. The costs were hidden, so we didn’t care what the costs were.

So far all the solutions I have seen from Washington are methods to further hide the true cost of health care from us. No wonder I believe they are all doomed to fail.

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:40:37 +0000

This is the funniest crap I’ve ever heard of.

May as well start doing some Tuskegee Syphilis stuff while we’re at it since we’re paying welfare patients to get unnecessary procedures now. If we’re gonna do procedures-for-money, let’s try to cure cancer or Alzheimer’s or something while we’re at it.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:24:15 +0000

You’re just being sensitive about the PoliSci degree. The real killer is your lack of a law degree. You have no cred with this administration, or any other for that matter.

By: Sarah G

Sarah G — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:33:11 +0000

Public policy people seem to expect the most honest behavior from the public and the least honest behavior from their employees.

By: idoc

idoc — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:51:03 +0000

What’s the difference between this and a kickback? If you as a provider did this you would be jailed.

By: hashmd

hashmd — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:24:43 +0000

Your idea makes more sense than anything coming from government sources.