Wait till the hospitals in these small towns and rural communities close. It is hard to run a hospital if 25% of the patients can’t pay. It was difficult but somehow we have managed to make our healthcare system worse.
brodega on
Rural Trump voters about to get what they voted for
DrTonyTiger on
New York really lights up in this map. Medicaid is the biggest expense in a lot of counties and is paid largely from property taxes.
Glorious_tim on
Yes. States like NY supplement their Medicaid coverage with state funds. So the Feds only account for 50% of Medicaid funding. In States like Montana Mississippi and North Dakota which add far less to Medicaid, the percentage of Medicaid covered by the Feds is much higher (65%).
Therefore it looks like NY is more dependent on Medicaid, but since a larger proportion of it comes from the state, it is more insulated than a state like Alabama where ⅔ of the budget comes from the Feds
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Wait till the hospitals in these small towns and rural communities close. It is hard to run a hospital if 25% of the patients can’t pay. It was difficult but somehow we have managed to make our healthcare system worse.
Rural Trump voters about to get what they voted for
New York really lights up in this map. Medicaid is the biggest expense in a lot of counties and is paid largely from property taxes.
Yes. States like NY supplement their Medicaid coverage with state funds. So the Feds only account for 50% of Medicaid funding. In States like Montana Mississippi and North Dakota which add far less to Medicaid, the percentage of Medicaid covered by the Feds is much higher (65%).
Therefore it looks like NY is more dependent on Medicaid, but since a larger proportion of it comes from the state, it is more insulated than a state like Alabama where ⅔ of the budget comes from the Feds