She doesn't have any income, my husband and I are providing her with room and board, but we also have very low income. My mother is a senior, so she needs medical help and regular check-ups. We can not afford to buy her private health insurance. Can my mother apply for Medicaid, does she have a right to do it? If not - what are her options?
Now for some strange reason, our current House of Representatives had voted yes last month for the new Trumpcare which they said was great, yet within the Bill they had a clause that said in part that Congress was exempt.... seriously.... that made no sense at all. I am sure the U.S. Senate will throw that exemption out.
Much to Mom-in-law's surprise, she could not get Medicare. So she will apply for Medicaid. It's my understanding that Medicaid only asks what assets you have here in the States... to which she can write "none".
My friend is livid that her Mom-in-law can be accepted by Medicaid even though she still owns a large house, savings accounts, etc. back overseas. Back home Mom-in-law had a housekeeper, and she had a cook. How many poor people in the U.S. have that? Totally unfair.
We have paid into the medicare system our entire lives in the U.S. Immigrants are tapping our funds to pay into the Medicare system WE, as American citizens have paid for our entire lives. It was OUR insurance system paid for by US.
If you cannot understand the animosity that we have toward people that have paid NOTHING toward our own hard earned tax dollars, you are lost. Stay in your own country.
Tap their resources. America is done being the free bucket with the rest of the world because you, also intelligent and free thinking can't get your stuff together.
Immigrants who have not paid into the Social Security system are neither eligible for Medicaid nor draining it. Immigrants who pay into Social Security earned their Medicare benefits the same as anyone else.
How many blood-sucking immigrants do you personally know? The immigrants whom I know work as hard as anyone else, pay their taxes and abide by the laws of this country.
If you are worried about people bleeding the system, then please vote for congresspeople who will actually represent the interests of normal people who sometimes grow old and get sick, want their children to get a decent education, and who want drinkable water, healthy soil, and breathable air. The fear-mongering and lies need to stop. Because while I don't see any immigrants who are living the high-life at my expense, I do see one who certainly is. And he has been trying to use immigrants as a distraction for his foolishness since at least the day he rode down his golden escalator and tied himself around our collective neck.
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" ~ Emma Lazarus, The Statue of Liberty
Oops- written prior to the advent of Medicaid- never mind.
Immigrants also do much of the building here in Alabama. Mexican crews work cheaper, so contractors use them. And the immigrants are so important in crops across the entire southern US. I have great thanks for the immigrants from Mexico. They help keep the cost of food affordable.
Most of you however pay more attention to the money bucket factor with the "you don't get anything if you didn't pay first" materialistic view.
Let's see, Medicaid today accepts and pays all care for all pregnant women and children immigrants (legal and illegal), and this is okay considering that these individuals have not contributed to your money bucket.
However (this is aging care forum) Medicaid will not accept helping/covering elderly legal immigrants (I said LEGAL) that will not receive health coverage under any regular/private insurance otherwise.
This is a huge contradiction. Some women as illegal immigrants are getting pregnant in this country with the sole purpose of staying here and this abuse to your money bucket is super-fine.
Legal elderly immigrants that cannot work anymore needing medical assistance is not so fine? why ? because they are old people ?
By the way, most Democratic European countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain...), Australia and Canada and more offer free medical assistance to any of you that become LEGAL immigrants,
since the first day, no waiting period.
Her mother has Alzheimer's and her father has Parkinson's. Her parents are begging her to bring them to Florida where she lives. She has asked me for advice and I am meeting her this evening for a drink and just want to make sure I give her the best advice I can.
I see no way for her parents to be eligible for Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. But that's about all I'm sure of! Any other suggestions???