Jackson Jambalaya

Having no health insurance at all is better than having Medicaid? That's the same thing as saying that having no access to medical treatments is better than having access to medical treatments. BULLSHIT

There is no access to health care problem.

Kingfish, I understand that this is a sponsored post, but it is pretty goofy. Very goofy, in fact. It stands out like a sore thumb from your usual posts. Which, I suppose, is why it is labeled as a "sponsored post." Still, it is pretty ridiculous.

Still, it is pretty ridiculous.

You are:

1] free to not read it

2] free to not read JJ

3] free not to use the internet

4] free to start your own joint

That thing looks like something an elementary school kid would have designed. Does not speak well for the group that sponsored it. Maybe some of the girls at the Parade last Saturday in the video fighting work there and do their ad-design work.

What does this have to do with drunk rednecks throwing down?

The cognitive reasoning is the same.

Sorry, but the MS Center for Public Policy is as best a Reich Wing PR organization that is still in the 18th Century

The group that put this together has done much better work on other projects. There a good reasons to be against Medicaid expansion and there are some reasons to be for it, though there is no question that Medicaid should be reformed. But it looks like they struggled to find reasons just to fill the squares on their chart. No insurance is better than Medicaid? Come on...if they keep making that argument, some people won't listen long enough to hear the good arguments against expanding Medicaid.

Ask a physician if he would rather treat a patient with Medicaid or one with no insurance at all...

There are legitimate reasons to oppose the expansion. Some of these points loose credibility for the authors.

Currently the debt service for the state is identical to the costs of charity care...both are also on the same budget trajectory. Discipline, thrift, professional accountability, decisiveness, and a sense of public trust are missing in both healthcare and public finance. Emergency room healthcare is not an economic or political solution. Saying we have no healthcare access is like saying we have no correctional access.

Ask a physician if he would rather treat a patient with Medicaid or one with no insurance at all...

Only in your binary world would a physician only have two choices.

Governor Bryant, health providers, and the legislative brain trust should proceed with a state plan for our healthcare needs like other states have done. Don't wait for a formula from CMS. Figure out what the state needs are most urgent. How much of the premium can you ask the poor to cover. What is a yearly cap per beneficiary. Figure out prevention areas that will make for a healthy workforce going forward and do it.

One in eight doctors won't take Medicare patients and some have them under their care but won't take new Medicare patients. Doctors have a bias against government-type insurance so the government has to scramble to make private insurance available and affordable thru tax subsidies, vouchers, group pools, etc. The healthcare industry is a maze of cost shifting and expanding as a percentage of the economy. Its a for-profit system so everyone involved is tussling over their share and nobody seeing the overall health of the people as the end.

The Mississippi Center for Public Policy did taxpayers a great service when it made State and County spending details easy to access. After that, it descended into an ultra right wing-nut operation that makes Attila the Hun look like a liberal.

Great comments 7:23 am

8:04 am Once upon a time, doctors took the Hippocratic oath SO seriously that trying to heal a sick patient was far more important that how they got paid.

I use to respect my doctors and they respected me. Now I feel I need to take my IQ scores and CV with me so they will realize their patient might, just might be as smart as they imagine themselves to be.

When med school school became all about grades and testing , we ended up with too many doctors who can memorize but have poor people skills and little imagination.

Wait a second. Doctors lose money on Medicaid patients. The reimbursement rates change for hospitals. Then there is the fact that thanks to companies like HSM, they are loaded down with paperwork for Medicaid patients. Then if HSM denies the claim, then they have to fill out more paperwork for the appeal. More work, lose money, yeah, see how long that lasts in any industry.