On a tense exchange with Senator Bill Cassidy, Louisiana Republic, Robert F. showed. Kennedy Junior is a sudden decrease in familiarity with Medicare and Medicaid, government programs responsible for covering more than 150 million Americans.
Sometimes, Mr. Kennedy seemed to confuse the two programs. Medicare is a federal program that provides coverage of the older Americans and the handicapped, while Medicaid is a federal government program that covers low-income people.
When Medicare described for the first time, he seemed to ignore half of the Medicare program that relies on special insurance plans to provide care. Later, he admitted that he was registered in the Medicare’s special feature plan and said he believed that “more people prefer to be on Medicare’s feature because it provides very good services.”
Medicare Advantage plans have been severely criticized by legislators, including federal organizers, Mr. Kennedy will be honored if confirmed and public calling groups. They have accused the plans, including those offered by the country’s largest insurance companies, of excessively charging the government, delaying and denying access to care. The organizers punished some insurance companies for excessive desire.
Mr. Kennedy described Medicaid as “the federal government completely pushed.” In fact, medicaid, which provides health insurance coverage for Nearly 80 million Low -income Americans are funded by a range of federal and state funds.
Mr. Kennedy also claimed that many Medicaid mosques were frustrated due to the high costs they faced to cover public insurance.
“Most people who are in Medicaid are not happy,” Mr. Kennedy claimed. “The installments are very high. Divists are very high.”
He repeated a similar argument later in the hearing, confronting an interrogation from Senator Bin Ray Logan, New Mexico Democrat. He said: “The installments are very high, the discounts are very high, and everyone is getting more ill,” he said.
But the vast majority registered in Medicaid does not pay any installments or discounts to cover them. Federal Law It is prohibited specifically Premiums of the lowest cuddled atom. Patients usually do not have to pay anything when they go to the doctor, regardless of a handful of experiences based on the country that has tested small fees.
Do not support recent research on Medicaid, Mr. Kennedy claimed that “everyone is sick.” studies Generally you find This is an increase in joining a bodies that improve people’s access to health care. some studies I also found that medicaid improves health results, although this is a set of limited research.
Senator Cassidy asked Mr. Kennedy to describe how Medicaid will be suitable. While other candidates Trump made concrete political proposals – Russell Fair, the candidate for the Budget and Management Office, Proposal A job condition for the program in his confirmation session last week – Mr. Kennedy described mysterious changes.
He said he supported changes in “increasing transparency” and “increasing accountability.”
When Mr. Cassidy pressed him to be more specific, Mr. Kennedy replied, “I do not have a wide proposal to dismantle the program.”
Mr. Kennedy seems to be ready, however, to be asked about Advance numbers As for Medicaid, Senators report accurately that the program covers about 72 million people through the traditional general insurance program and seven million additional million through targeted allocations, which is the health insurance program for children.
