Medicaid Quotes
More Medicaid Quotes
If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.
— CNN Newsroom (August 4, 2009)
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid . This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.
— Chapter 6, Welfare, p. 239 (The Economic Illusion (1984))
What a hospital is actually paid by an MCO, Medicare, or Medicaid is rarely even close to what is listed on the chargemaster. In fact, only the uninsured are subject to those charges.
— Peter Kongstvedt (2009). Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. p. 212. ISBN 978-0763759117.
