Medicaid Fails Brain Cancer Victim

Israel held in is a is 49 years old he's worked his entire life in retail customer service and ect couldn't get health insurance through his job he makes is income last year was 13330 four dollars he lives in Texas now 13003 r34 is too little to qualify for Obamacare and the way that it to buy health insurance on the exchange is to you to get a a subsidy if he'd been seventeen thousand dollars a year he could've gotten health insurance for free I with Obama Cavalli was 17 is there is the beginning put arm might be a little bit higher RP and and you know you get a subsidy from the federal government any would be buying it from you know blue cross your at our whatever on on the exchange in Texas and if you made under 2000 are under three thousand dollars a year in taxes he could qualify for medicaid that's paid for be in part by the state 56 percent by the federal government in forty 4 percent with FB i think by the state but instead because he makes 13330 four dollars and rick Scott Rick Perry the governor Texas said we're not going to take the Medicaid expansion from the federal government an option is provided to him by John Roberts in the US Supreme Court when republicans petitioned the Supreme Court to knock down Obamacare because of that he was caught the donut hole he can't afford health insurance he's making too much to get the health insurance for really really really destitute people the Medicaid program the state did not expand the Medicaid program for Obamacare and he doesn't make enough to qualify for Obamacare and he has been diagnosed i with terminal brain cancer and the doctors are saying you know he'd been in been having these headaches he just didn't go to the doctor until finally the headaches turned into seizures Newsradio the doctor didn't have insurance when he became a seizure he ended up in the in the ER and that's where he was diagnose all went first the neurologist said he had depression and send him home see you stop for a while then they came back with a vengeance he finally goes in why he has no choice is having seizures is taken to the ER and they scan his brain and okay this guy's got eighteen months to live doctor said you know if we've actually treated him earlier if somebody diagnosed him you might be alive but he didn't have health insurance so he really didn't have that option a did go to the the ER and they did say well you know sorry it looks like you too pricey later so why would a rick Scott turndown this money and why would anybody think that this is not only a good thing but a moral thing to tell Israel Helton just go die and has a high so Meyer is so well as he's a senior research fellow with health policy studies at the Heritage Foundation heritage .org and and welcome back to the program thank you I think this puts you in turn odd position because Obamacare complete with the Medicare expansion was first created by you guys was about heritage no pics no not at all I what they did was the they took some love the from concepts and rework some it's kind of like i would tell people kinda like giving your wife your girlfriend the box that says Tiffany on the outside but there's actually something else inside it for that is that they didn't make that happen something from your right as I try to claim a yeah but but your for example the exchanger maybe that was designed to create defined contribution multiple choices lots of variation for people were stuck in one size fits all employer plant instead they're using it to reduced choices and access to the other that that be that as it may from talking about the Medicaid expansion why expander why not expand it was interesting the IBM the the store your relaying from palestinian drawer this is the this is the red state donut hole you have twenty-five states where Republican governors or legislatures are created this red stayed on all they have increased first mobile law creates a are secondly John Roberts well okay one can argue that the whereas Springs and and the Supreme Court creativity well stuff but but but but governors have a choice of habitat no state or not having in their state that's right and in jan Brewer the Republican governor i've Arizona said I don't want this donut hole in my state well they actually it's very interesting the reason Arizona and I was not surprised there is an adopted it Arizona actually did this extended coverage for this population on a waiver before the passage of the PPACA have had ten years experience with it and so it would be one of the few states and the administration wouldn't play ball let them continue that without it adopting the expansion so they were forced into a situation where they either had to adopt expansion or throw people off the rolls are part that were already or so the entire product line at how is Rick Perry in turning down with a small and not allowing Texas taxpayers have their own money back from the federal government okay let you know how is he not either complicity in *** or malpractice order and or malpractice first first of all let's remember also here what's the what's going on in the individual you're talking about the first individual single they would qualify for exchange subsidies because the federal is married with children I okay well then a them de otro for a few more dollar-something come they might call for a half years make it sixteen or seventeen thousand dollars cheaper headed he could have Obamacare but the right I don't know this is the problem with these people who are the working poor interesting things going on here arm who keep in mind that the she is not representative of this population in other words when you look at you say who will be added to the Medicaid rolls as a kid nope they're already on to that level is it disabled nope they're already on is it the elderly is a pregnant woman oh they're already on the people who will be added to the roles were able-bodied adults now this is important and furthermore like Israel helm right and furthermore but on like this gentleman are it between three quarters were well actually it even in poor states at least coverage just Arkansas at least three-quarters of those people do not have dependent children in other words they have low income it but they're a so we should just say screw them let them die they are all know we said that remember keep in mind what's going on that's what the Rick Perry is saying oh that's about the sake it's absolutely senator come on you know better than that no I don't know I'm telling you I'm I'm I'm giving meds under item or a line in the sand here for direct Rick Perry is either committing *** or he is an hour he is the worst got our taxes ever had any should be. should be impeached I know you ever did ideological agenda but look for sticks this is not ideology this is a man dying because this governor chose this policy stick to the facts are the facts are that going back to a couple decades to also be called him call the emergency medical treatment and active Labor Act hospitals cannot turn people with the emergency room sold as you point out this job pastor in the reagan administration but they don't have to provide them with anything other than triage know they do know they do they have to provide the military's and furthermore this is very important furthermore this brain cancer was diagnosed in the emergency room and the hospital said we can't treat there's you know with this is not hospital may not be able to put some other hospital might furthermore here's my take: we have been this is your solution no I'm just telling you people get the medical care and it gets paid for that support and tried to make people today who are uninsured and have medical problems obey if they don't necessarily get a timely that's a problem at all good now so we get the best some sort of this cat had it this cat had Obamacare and he got treated early instead of it being a very expensive other problems by serb four years before this in this situation we already are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on hospitals to cover the cost of care for German like this the the point that I was a makers the fast majority the people who beat added to the rolls by Medicaid or not only able-bodied adults but they do not have dependent children three-quarters of them half of them were between 1934 that the interesting thing about this is you saw the report the came out from the congressional budget office last week in fact I'm reading from for Edward just about china gotta get your point the point is the CPO says if the state does not expand Medicaid those individuals who haven't both work for to get or Obamacare subsidy to expand Medicaid Gautam up so what israel should I as he should have at work extra hours to get his income from asians taking a second job what this is all his fault no it's not his fault the point is are you can find a solution for him without adding 100 2012 able-bodied young adult the roles in the process okay and you get the last word came to say this is the Thom Hartmann program anheuser Meyer senior research fellow with health policy studies at the Heritage Foundation her shattered and thanks for being with us today thank you