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Georgia publicly touts its Medicaid experiment as a success. Numbers tell a different story: Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million. (thecurrentga.org)

submitted 1 week ago by grue to c/georgia

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cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1693090

Price of Independence: Georgia’s experimental alternative to Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers more than $86 million.

Enrollment Shortfall: Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in the first 18 months of the program — roughly 75% fewer than the state had estimated for year one.

Work Slowdown: The state found it difficult to verify that people are working to keep their benefits, so Georgia has gone from monthly checks to annual ones.

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[–] grue 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who said anything about "patients with a lot of medical issues?" That $13k is an average across all of them, including the healthy ones. For that, $13k is an absolutely insane amount to spend on healthcare (especially by worldwide standards instead of ridiculous American ones), insurance or not.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody is on Medicaid because they are healthy guy.

[–] grue 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fuck are you talking about? People are on Medicaid because they're poor -- it has nothing to do with how healthy they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

While you're correct, 13k for current base as a initial development cost is pretty good. They're correct about that regardless of health status. engineering is expensive and the initial development always is a huge sink.

86mil pretty cheap for a platform. Startups will burn through about 10mil before flaring out

[–] grue 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, except that we could've just signed onto Federal medicaid expansion for free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

smile separate topic. You're against the approach from the get go, and thats fine. My point is that as far as experiments and building systems this was fairly cheap.

Better they waste time failing with these experiments than figuring out How to murder various minority groups. And who knows maybe they'll find a workable approach.