Healthcare

Expanded Medicaid and Missouri 🏥

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Expanded Medicaid and Missouri 🏥

Accidents happen, people have healthcare needs – it’s not just the colored folks in the cities either. You can be the model homesteader or off-grider in rural Missouri and have an accident with a chain saw, get kicked by cow or trampled by a hog. Farm life is dangerous.

We want to believe that everybody who works can get affordable health care but that isn’t the case. The Medicaid expansion allows millions of people to buy into low cost, basic health insurance that would otherwise be unaffordable. The federal government picks up most of the tab, and while it’s a cost to state budgets it helps a lot of people, not just those who live in the big cities.

Maybe I have a dog in the fight. I’m not a resident of Missouri but it’s on the short list of states I’ve been interested in some day moving to in the future. Knowing that affordable health care options for those of modest incomes are available is important to me. I don’t like doctors but sometimes you need them.

History of Hospital Ships in New York City | Turnstile Tours

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Comfort at Sea: History of Hospital Ships in New York City | Turnstile Tours

The hospital ship USNS Comfort is en route to New York City. One of just two hospital ships in the Navy fleet, it has been dispatched from Norfolk, while its sister ship Mercy recently arrived in Los Angeles. Comfort will dock at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal (and some dredging is required to fit the converted oil tanker into the berth), while the counterpart Red Hook Cruise Terminal is being converted into one of the city’s five emergency hospitals, along with the Javits Center, Bronx Expo Center, Queens Aqueduct, and the College of Staten Island (which, coincidentally, sits on the former site of Halloran Hospital, the Army’s largest hospital in World War II).

I am intrigued by Joe Biden’s proposal to lower the Medicare age to 60. 😷

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I am intrigued by Joe Biden’s proposal to lower the Medicare age to 60. 😷

While I have not made a decision yet on who I will vote for come November, I do think lowering the Medicare age is a realistic proposal that builds on the existing system at an fairly affordable cost.

Medicare is not cheap when you consider the cost of the supplemental insurance but it is a lot more affordable to a silver level plan on the Affordable Healthcare Act marketplace. It might be great for those people who can’t return to the traditional workforce after the Coronavirus PAUSE, those who want to retire early or run their own business.