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The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Thursday Links

Posted on March 21, 2024March 20, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Biden Budget: more  spending on the elderly: crumbs for the children.  (Kids don’t vote.)

17,000 families in Illinois alone have lost homes to Medicaid recovery since 2021. (NYT)

The ACCESS Act allows low-income families to redirect a portion of their (Obamacare) subsidies into a tax-advantaged health savings account (HSA). 

“The biggest deficits are showing up in the blue states that received massive [Covid] handouts … and are now facing the day of reckoning.”

How much is a patient’s life worth in the UK?

1 thought on “Thursday Links”

  1. Bob Hertz says:
    March 22, 2024 at 4:54 pm

    Thanks for the article on Medicaid estate recovery, plus Devon’s thoughtful piece on same.

    This is a repulsive practice…it is the kind of thing that often happens in means-tested programs. I favor universal health insurance virtually every time.

    In this situation, a lot depends on the value of the house that is inherited.

    In many parts of the country, a house might be worth $400,000. I would think that an heir could get a home equity loan for $71,000 to meet the government demand.

    Rep. Schakowsky has also been known to pad a statistic or two. She says that 17,000 families in her state lost their homes to Medicard. At $50,000 each, the lost homes would have netted $850 million……….but we later read the recoveries brought in only $793 million over the entire country!

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