Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
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#HandsOffMedicaid
Trump thinks are a waste like Trump's special needs nephew. Trump asked his brother why don't you just let him die.
These people are children, the disabled, your grandma/ grandpa, great aunt/uncle. Now that they are old they should Bkilld
See the pattern? It’s not about each of two dozen agencies, & counting. EVERYTHING is targeted. It’s about drowning government in the bathtub. Then taking over.
It is a #coup.
#AmericanFascism #selfcoup
Alaska : DenaliCare
Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas: Health Care
California: Medi-Cal
Colorado: Health First Colorado
Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)
Georgia: Medicaid
Hawaii : MedQuest
Idaho: Medicaid
Illinois: Medical Assistance Program, Allkids
https://www.floridakidcare.org/
Iowa: IA Health Link
Kansas: KanCare Medical Assistance Program
Kentucky: Medicaid
Louisiana: Bayou Health, Healthy Louisiana
Maine: MaineCare
Maryland: Medical Assistance
Michigan: Medical Assistance or MA
Minnesota: Medical Assistance (MA),
MinnesotaCare
Mississippi: Mississippi Coordinated Access Network (MississippiCAN)
Missouri: MO HealthNet
Montana: Medicaid
Nebraska: ACCESSNebraska, Nebraska Medical Assistance Program (NMAP)
New Hampshire: NH Medicaid, Medical Assistance
New Jersey: NJ FamilyCare
New Mexico: Centennial Care, Medical Assistance
New York: Medicaid Managed Care
North Carolina: Division of Health Benefits (DHB), Medicaid
North Dakota: North Dakota Medicaid Expansion Program
Ohio: Medicaid
Oregon: Oregon Health Plan (OHP)
Pennsylvania: Medical Assistance (MA)
Rhode Island: RI Medical Assistance Program
South Carolina: Healthy Connections
South Dakota: Medicaid
Tennessee: TennCare
Texas: STAR+PLUS
Utah: Medicaid
Vermont: Green Mountain Care
Virginia: Cardinal Care
an actual US GOV OFFICIAL letter in your mailbox, these were you EARNED benefits last month/quarter
And the young adult who just moved here called it that also.
I’ve worked in the field as a social worker and currently have Medicaid and I’ve never heard it referred to as “medical assistance or MA”.
This is the post where she named her sources.
And yeah, I corrected her for Michigan too. I am on it. :) I am well aware of it being called "Healthy Michigan" -- instead for no fool reason. Apparently only 10 states just say Medicaid.
I can't speak for what it's called for kids.
ARKids
ARHome
ARChoice
Independent Choices
TEFRA
PACE
Medi-Cal is IEHP.
https://www.iehp.org/en/home
and the letter says something like
Your Gov't benefits, from your hard earned work, were:
#HandsOffMedicaid
Some of these elected officials are dumb as rocks aobut their own states.
And very few people know who actually gets Medicaid. Seniors, kids, people w disabilities, and people w jobs that don’t offer insurance.
https://bsky.app/profile/baphomeetngreet.bsky.social/post/3lj3upgahw22l
It was THEY who are on welfare, I am on XYZ program..
https://bsky.app/profile/baphomeetngreet.bsky.social/post/3lj3upgahw22l
https://www.healthcare.gov/medicaid-chip-program-names/
*MercyCare, who I later found out denied my further spine treatment via EviCore.
This has effects entirely imaginable by anyone who has seen how insurers operate.