I can't remember what state but the state govt is going to require all citizens to purchase health insurance.
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I think it's interisting.  I'm curious to see how this turns out.  I guess they make us have car insurance... I'm worried it's gonna be a huge burdon on business and low income families... let's wait and see!
616993
public health department... federally funded and they have to keep it confidential.
1124270
In which state?  They will all be different.
1102263
It is merely the government not paying for it,  the person is requried to be responsible for thier own medical care.  If they can not afford it, are there not social service or medical care for the poor.\n\nBut I can not see why workers comp should even be paying for heart medication, cannot see a relation between workers comp and heart issues.\n\nBut they only pay according to the rules of the policy nothing more, nothing less.
771538
no its for all seniors. medicaid is for people of low income
1161145
Most likely due to insurance companies lobbying our politicians to ensure that a nationalized health care system doesn't come into being.
203651
Very very hard, not only in Ohio but any state for that matter.  Of course it is always a matter of money, which in your case can become totally out unless you have millions.  Contact Blue Cross/Blue Shield or simiar in Ohio for guidance and more IMPORTANT contact your state Department of Health.  In most states there is a set up that provides "private" health insurance through a pool for people that have conditions not acceptable through the regular companies....of course its expensive.  In most cases they are set up by a pool of health insurance companies.  For example Texas has that set up.
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Apparently NY has expanded Medicaid and is relying on counties to pay for it. \n\nThat must really suck!
677710
Most likely.  Right now people who are insured are charged extra to cover people who cannot pay their medical bill. If illegals are covered, at least in part, by medicare or medicaid, then that will ease the financial burden on the insured.
71543
Someone aside from Bush because he's a complete moron- needs to seriously attack the issue of health care.  Health care is a necessity.  You need to have health insurance no matter if your employed or not.  But it needs to be affordable health care.
712468
Government doctors would be allocated to some villages.   \nThe government is allocating $100 million for health education.\nAs project leader, he will have to allocate jobs to people.
1120604
My guess would be no. They have a state income tax, coming from a highly taxed state - that is good. Health Care bill signed today for small business seems like a good idea too. I am ultra-conservative but not against the people who are trying to fend for themselves.
935462
No idea, but you could try looking up a consultant at a health clinic or calling whatever government office oversees the program to get more details.
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in these times, everyone is looking for health insurance. if you can offer someone a better deal, they will listen.\n\ni sure would.
603019
In the state's pocket.
651851
It depends entirely on the state.
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Wow! I'm amazed by the bias and misunderstanding evidenced in the answers so far. . . I have lived in a country with "socialized medicine" (Denmark) so I know something about it.  To answer the question, I believe that the U.S. may now be the only western country without a national socialized health-care system.  \n\nAs some mentioned here, in socialized medicine, taxes or other federal and state revenues would pay for our individual medical costs.  But to assume that this would automatically be a big hardship for the taxpayer shows a misunderstanding of the way such a system works and the options in the set-up that we would need to consider.  \n\nThere are many ways to pay for socialized health care, and they don't always involve raised taxes.  For one example, consider this: right now, our tax dollars are wasted to an enormous degree on the pet projects of various legislators - projects that most of us do not know about and wouldn't care to be paying for!  I would like to see some of this "pork-barrel" spending done away with (and I believe that we are moving in that direction as people educate themselves about it and demand change) - that would go a long way toward funding things like a national health-care system.  Other forms of government waste exist also, where funds would be better spent on insuring all our citizens.\n\nThe biggest thing that would worry me personally about such a system, and that may be much of the reason why we don't yet have it in the U.S., is that its establishment would necessarily require some level of federal-level regulation.  Americans (myself included) have a traditional distaste for too much government control on the federal level.  \n\nBut in this case, federal regulation and the meddling that would come with it,  may be a necessary evil that we need to consider - because the alternative is to keep going along the path we are on, in which with every year we see fewer employers able to insure employees, the costs of individually-purchased policies grow more outlandish, and the numbers of uninsured citizens increase by thousands.\n\nI think that it is telling that we are the last free-world, western, civilized nation to NOT be insuring ALL its citizens.  In America, we believe that citizens have a birth right to some things - like education and social security.  I believe we need to start believing as a nation that everyone has a right to be treated when they are ill without it bankrupting them.  It's really a right to LIVE.  It seems elementary that we would want to keep all our citizens healthy, not just the wealthy and lucky.  Something is going to have to give, and soon. \n\nMac at ASKEW\nhttp://askew.blogharbor.com