Medical Malpractice

When Obama championed for Natoma Canfield healthcare, was he aware she was eligible for Medicade?

CLEVELAND (AP) - A woman championed as the Obama administration's emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio hospital where she is being treated. With a self-reported annual income of about $6,000, Natoma Canfield is a prime candidate for financial aid in the form of Medicaid—the federal health care program for low-income and disabled people—or charitable assistance http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EG06182&show_article=1 http://www.wibc.com/news/article.aspx?id=2081109 http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2795218/in_act_of_desperation_obama_exploits.html

Public Comments

1. You don't know what you are talking about. It isn't as easy as you are implying. My brother in law earned $400.00 last year (that is ALL). He has had cancer and picked up a MRSA infection while in the hospital. HE doesn't qualify for Medicaid. He also isn't able to qualify for disability. I don't think you understand how the system works.
2. There's no such thing as Medicade. Medicaid--yes.
3. Obama isn't aware of anything but getting his agenda passed, whether by hook or crook, it matters not to him or his administration.
4. Yes but he has never let the pesky facts get in the way of a good rant
5. that's part of the problem... everyone who gets bad sick goes broke... due to the bills... then their insurance steps aside or hikes up prices so they can't afford it... then they get on medicare/medicaid... and we wonder why medicare is broke... EVERYONE I've ever known who was bad sick eventually ends up on medicare... insurance or no insurance... always ends up in the taxpayer's pocket...
6. Its obvious she didn't know about the program, the woman is, after all quite ill, and elderly. In those cases I've always seen social workers at the hospital helping people with the necessary paperwork. There are two things though, if she owns her home she may have seen others lose theirs, and there is in many states a recovery system if a home is owned and someone goes on Medicajd. I know it happens, because my neighbor had to go on Medicaid after years suffering from emphysema, when she died her home was owned by, and sold by the state. This lady may have known others with the same thing. The other thing is that Medicaid may not be available if her assets are over a certain amount, so if she say, owned a car worth over $1500 dollars, she would have to sell it and use that money up first. People can be full of foolish pride too, and not want to beg a charity even when they need it. That's why a level playing field is necessary, we really don't want the old, ill, confused or just not too bright to have to plow through tons of paperwork to get needed results. It should just be there, with no tripwires.
7. He can't be faulted for choosing her,because the feeble minded dems thinks this is a really good example of why you should vote for his HC bill.
8. Ohio, eh? My husband grew up in Ohio and moved here 6 years ago...I know for a FACT that even if that woman couldn't get Medicaid (as one of your answerers claims), she DOES qualify for indigent care consideration, and her hospital bills would be ZERO My husband's mother had a hospital bill in Ohio, just last year for $1100 (asthma attack)...Because her annual income is less than $20,000 they reduced the bill to ZERO. People don't just "die because they don't have health insurance" If you look on the back of EVERY hospital bill (at least where I live, in Kentucky) It says "If you need assistance paying your bill, contact our billing department." We usually have our doctor bills reduced by 20%-25% just because we pay cash, and the doctor's office doesn't have to deal with insurance companies...Lower administrative costs=Lower bills. If this health care BS gets passed, I will no longer have the option of paying in cash the way that I have for over 20 years...I hate wasting money, so that's just gonna piss me off.