General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)because we do not have a safety net that answers the needs of those who fall through the cracks. Since we do not have a system that provides health care to all regardless of income such as they do in many EU countries we need a cutoff point and a safety net that recognizes that this is not working for the just over the limit patients. There needs to be some way to identify persons like her who are very sick.
Here in MN there is something called a spenddown that takes into account of the money spent on your present health care services and the amount you paid yourself. When the spenddown is big enough then you are back on assistance. At least I think that is the way it works. But even this system has those who fall through the cracks.
If only we could have gotten the single payer system for true universal care that many of us have worked for.