Saw a random Youtube video about the $7 million in medical bills for some NICU triplets, and thinking of this, and I'm just SO MAD at a certain economist (*cough*SoahNmith*cough*) ranting about "Medicaid was made to sound like Medicare so you'd be tricked into supporting TEH WELFARES!!!!"
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David Gorski, MD, PhD
Correct. My European friends are quite reasonably appalled when I tell them that in the US you have to spend down your assets paying for nursing care until you qualify for Medicaid, and only then will Medicaid pay for nursing home care, while Medicare pays for medical treatments.
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