Dr. Lynn Blewett
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first heard May 2024
last heard May 2024
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We established these marketplaces. And now it's like, okay, how can we like just open that up just a little bit more to add more people? You know, so we increase the eligibility levels or we open it up to additional people. So Minnesota just passed, not this year, but the prior legislative session, health insurance coverage, a Medicaid type program for undocumented.
So that's, you know, for children and adults. So that's a huge incremental. Now, we don't get any federal money for that. That's a state only. Feds will not pay for undocumented people health care through Medicaid or through the marketplaces. So that's and there's about six or seven states who are doing that now saying these people are here. They're contributing to our economy.
They're showing up in our ER without any health insurance. We're going to extend a program for them and pay for it. So there will be some premiums. There'll be some cost sharing, but that's, you know, so states are sort of like, where's the pockets?
How can we address these pockets of uninsured and trying to, you know, trying to get those, you know, get those last people who are not covered into some kind of healthcare system.
Well, in 2010, when it was passed, we had 50 million people uninsured. Now we have 30 million. So it reduced the uninsurance bite. It provided coverage for 20 million people, in essence. That's a lot. Yeah. So it's not a... it was a significant impact on our system.
But we still have 30 million people and we accept that as a country.
Yeah.
Well, I was just wondering, so there are... there are grants and support for what we call navigators or enrollment assisters and your community group should know that they exist. And there's a list with phone numbers and they can help, you know, explain the process and help you walk through the application process. And they, you know, that's something, um,
that we should make sure the community groups get, because there is- And understand, Lynn.
What am I applying to? Right.
I agree. I think the Medicare program, I mean, I'm grateful for the Part D. So that's the prescription drug.
You know, it's wonderful, but you have to buy a separate plan. So it's, I've walked my dad through this, it just was almost impossible to sort through all that information and figure out the right thing for him to do.
But again, there are a lot of resources. So senior language and there's a lot of resources again, but I take it.
Well, that's a hard one. You know, maybe that, well, maybe that there are, There are people that are working on these issues that healthcare and healthcare financing, insurance access are complicated, but there are people who are devoted and dedicated to continuing to work towards universal coverage. And then students that are coming up in my program in public health are there. I mean, they are...
they don't want any of this mess. Like they want things to change. And so I'm, I'm a little bit hopeful. I guess I thought we would be further along than we are now in terms of change. And
you know, it's, it's, it's the way we do things in this country is incrementally it's complex, but there's also people that are, are, um, advocates and are working on it and you've got to find those networks and, you know, you can participate if you want.
Thank you. Thank you for that summary. I think that's really it. And stay tuned. Hang in there and stay tuned. Very good. I couldn't, I couldn't.
Yeah.
Okay.
Hang in there and stay tuned. I'm going to repeat that.
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