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Georgia publicly touts its Medicaid experiment as a success. Numbers tell a different story: Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million. (thecurrentga.org)

submitted 9 months ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/georgia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1693090

Price of Independence: Georgia’s experimental alternative to Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers more than $86 million.

Enrollment Shortfall: Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in the first 18 months of the program — roughly 75% fewer than the state had estimated for year one.

Work Slowdown: The state found it difficult to verify that people are working to keep their benefits, so Georgia has gone from monthly checks to annual ones.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Government services shouldn't be profit centers. 13k (yeah I did the math) for patients with a lot of medical issues on Medicaid doesn't sound bad to me. It actually sounds like public good.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who said anything about "patients with a lot of medical issues?" That $13k is an average across all of them, including the healthy ones. For that, $13k is an absolutely insane amount to spend on healthcare (especially by worldwide standards instead of ridiculous American ones), insurance or not.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is on Medicaid because they are healthy guy.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fuck are you talking about? People are on Medicaid because they're poor -- it has nothing to do with how healthy they are.