At least 21,000 Americans have died waiting to enroll in Medicaid, thanks in part to the expansion of the government healthcare program under Obamacare, according to a recently released report from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA).
Medicaid waiting lists currently sit around 650,000 individuals, FGA estimates. By contrast, more than 28 million able-bodied adults are now enrolled in the program, using resources that might otherwise be allocated to individuals on the waiting list.
The report focuses primarily on the waiting lists generated by the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver program. That program, created in 1981, allows states to extend Medicaid services to individuals in their home and/or community, meaning they do not need to be cared for in a nursing home or similar institutions. HCBS recipients tend to be those with severe intellectual disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and mental illnesses.
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That population always goes to the bottom of the lists.
The really sad part is the waiting list is comprised largely of those who worked hard during their life and now make too much for the 0bama care medicaid and are on a wait list. Those who get it right away include illegals, drug addicts, the mentally ill, and those with developmental disabilities who many times already have funding (sometimes substantial amounts of funding). Treating addicts and the mentally ill is fine as long as they want the help - often times they just want the medicaid but do not want the real help they need. If they do not want real help for their problems they should not get the medicaid. Most of those dying - the elderly on Social Security and veterans. Just like 0bama planned, "If grandma needs a hip replacement at 95, well ....."
This is not all bad news folks, almost 2/3 of the dead were registered Democrats!
But they will be voting in November.
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