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In reply to the discussion: Just enrolled in Obama care. [View all]DhhD
(4,695 posts)valued below the poverty level. In 2013, the ACA made the new poverty level as much as 130% of the State's poverty level. Like in Texas, the TEA Legislature did not keep up with cost of living, annually reducing causing many of the poor to be dropped off from Medicaid. GOP/TEA-scummy Low-Life forms.
ACA also made it possible when applying for Medicare, you automatically can apply for Extra Help Paying for Medicine (both forms should be on the Medicare Web site). Then the Medicare Office sends the filled out and returned to them, medicine form to your State Medicaid Office. The State has a set time to get the paperwork done and send you a letter that you are approved. That means that State Medicaid pays your Medicare Premium and you get Medicare for FREE! Medicaid pays your co-pays too; the service does the paperwork by computer-ACA law that went into effect 2011. I just love Obamacare-Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Applying to the State for Medicaid your self may take a long time. Some states were putting holds on applications in 2010 saying that just could not handle to paperwork load (that was changed in 2011 by the ACA.) See why GOP hates it? Many people are below the poverty level now.