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Analysis: Medicaid expansion would save Utah millions, cover 123K uninsured

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:07:16 MDT

Analysis: Medicaid expansion would save Utah millions, cover 123K uninsured

By Jennifer Dobner The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 23, 2013 11:07PM MDT

Utah could save $131 million and extend health insurance to more than 123,000 of its uninsured residents over the next 10 years if state officials opt to fully expand Medicaid, according to a cost-benefit analysis released Thursday. If Utah chooses not to expand, however, Medicaid will cost the state $177 million due to increased enrollment as those who are currently eligible, but not enrolled, are spurred to seek coverage. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), virtually everyone must have healt...

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Health care profiteers

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Health care profiteers

Updated May 23, 2013 01:01AM MDT

In “The limits of Medicaid” (Opinion, May 11), M. Royce Van Tassel criticizes Obamacare (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) for not improving health, though he agrees that it “nearly eliminated catastrophic out of pocket medical expenditures.” But this is a precise description of what an effective health insurance plan should do. Some people believe the propaganda of insurance companies that they make us healthier, but this is nonsense. They provide zero value to health (as the stu...

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Needing Medicaid

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:09:58 MDT

Needing Medicaid

Updated May 19, 2013 11:09PM MDT

Medicaid provides health care for families and individuals with low income and resources. Many across the country wouldn’t otherwise have health care. Yet some say they don’t want to pay for others’ health care because people are too lazy to pay for it themselves. But Medicaid actually goes to those who really need it. When he was a year old, my little brother was adopted by my parents through Utah Foster Care. He came with many drug-related problems due to his birth mother’s addiction. In his ...

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Medicaid nonsense

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:08 MDT

Medicaid nonsense

Updated May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

M. Royce Van Tassell’s op-ed, “Medicaid access doesn’t improve health” (Opinion, May 12), makes no sense at all. If that title were the case, why does anyone need insurance, including Van Tassell? He cites studies that say people without health insurance don’t have worse health than those who do. Does a person who has diabetes and doesn’t know it have the same health as a person with insurance who goes to the doctor, discovers the diabetes and sets up a treatment plan? I am 80 years old and hav...

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Misleading on Medicaid

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Misleading on Medicaid

Updated May 14, 2013 01:01AM MDT

If one can define the terms of the debate, one probably will win. This observation came to mind when I read M. Royce Van Tassell’s “Medicaid access doesn’t improve health” (Opinion, May 12), ironically, on Mother’s Day. He claimed that a study comparing Medicaid-covered individuals versus uninsured individuals showed no difference in overall health. He asserted that Medicaid-covered people are leaching off the poor taxpayer. Van Tassell failed to mention the cost of expensive emergency room c...

The limits of Medicaid

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:01:05 MDT

The limits of Medicaid

By m. royce van tassell

Updated May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT

By m. royce van tassell In promoting Obamacare to Congress and the American public, President Barack Obama and other backers of universal insurance coverage frequently said that people lacking health insurance have worse health than those who have health insurance. As it turns out, the first meaningful study of that claim says there’s little difference. The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study by a group of Harvard and MIT researchers evaluating the physical and mental healt...