Medicaid’s inadequacy and the need for the Morning Center
By Mike Miller · Jul 26, 2011
In a Consumer Power Report on a study on Medicaid, Benjamin Domenech of The Heartland Institute notes that
the level of access granted by Medicaid and CHIP is completely insufficient to meet the demands of the population it purports to serve.
He then cites Kathryn Nix, writing for the Heritage Foundation’s Foundry blog:
“While specialists turned away 11 percent of privately insured children, 66 percent of children with Medicaid were unable to get an appointment. For those who did, the waiting time was 22 days longer than for other patients.”
Domenech’s conclusion:
What the study shows is that the current system, even without the addition of millions of new participants under Obama’s nationalized health care system, is already failing to serve those it promised to provide with care.
One of the goals of The Morning Center, a charitable maternity hospital project initiated by Samaritan Ministries, is to provide top-notch care for both mother and child so second-rate care through Medicaid is not needed. This study and Domenech’s conclusions spotlight the need for such a hospital.