Medicaid service/ Charles Chuang

Medicaid service/ Charles Chuang At Christmas Eve dinner, a relative who is working with a senior care company describes her work with Medicaid. Her company’s patients are mainly Chinese spoken seniors. She mentioned several elders whose names were recognized during the past 30 some years in the community in Houston. I am so shocked that so many of them become poor and are qualified to Medicaid service. She said because that they got rid of their asset in order to be qualified. Yancy , my brother, discussed the Obamacare with me the other day that even Medicaid recipients were against the new national healthcare and our conclusion was that after joining Obamacare, they might have to pay some premium despite of free Medicaid. In speaking of money people gets disgusted. Some senior gets old and sick, they need help. They are immigrants and never have worked enough time to be qualified for Medicare. It is very expanse to have medical care in the United States; yet the nation provides humanitarian support such as Medicaid; therefore, many senior organize themselves to become poverty. They can also receive some food stamp and some kinds of welfare payments, yet they need to have a shelter, a house of apartment with an address in order to let senior care company to provide service. Otherwise , the homeless I witness at Waikiki cannot receive such welfare benefit. This company will charge $12 an hour from Medicaid, pays $7.5 to the provider , the senior care person; therefore $4.5 an hour is the company’s margin. It’s not high tech computer and is not Apple’s i-phone pay. It’s not huge profit, yet it’s a working opportunity, because of this opportunity, 300 immigrants get jobs. Because of the ethnic background, the providers are Chinese immigrants and I do not hear any from Taiwan. I like her work to help the weak in the community and I record it as a very meaningful way of life.