Costs even less in India, to the point where some state governments are seriously considering sending Medicaid patients with Hep C to India for treatment. Potential savings are in the billions for large states like California.
It will be interesting to see how the far right responds to such ideas. On the one hand, they keep saying Medicaid costs too much; well, this is one way to make it cost less. On the other hand, they seem to have a “moral” obsession with making sure that poor people are kept in a state of misery (it’s an article of faith that if poor people are made miserable enough, they’ll magically find a way to become less poor). So which will turn out to be more important?
Oh, yeah—this is the far right we’re talking about: they’ll just say that if poor people get sick and require expensive treatment, they should just die.
Costs even less in India, to the point where some state governments are seriously considering sending Medicaid patients with Hep C to India for treatment. Potential savings are in the billions for large states like California.
It will be interesting to see how the far right responds to such ideas. On the one hand, they keep saying Medicaid costs too much; well, this is one way to make it cost less. On the other hand, they seem to have a “moral” obsession with making sure that poor people are kept in a state of misery (it’s an article of faith that if poor people are made miserable enough, they’ll magically find a way to become less poor). So which will turn out to be more important?
Oh, yeah—this is the far right we’re talking about: they’ll just say that if poor people get sick and require expensive treatment, they should just die.