Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Several men and women that live in shelters do not have insurance. Our elderly have limited income and need transportation to get groceries and get to dr. appts. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community:

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I did not want to be on Medicaid but circumstances have led me to be from the beginning of this year. I was SOOOOOO excited to be able to afford to go to the dentist again. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Oral…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Can’t afford consistent medical for family of 5. Prescriptions important also

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Elimination of these benefits is shortsighted and will result in greater Medicaid expenses later. Dental problems lead to all kinds of physical health problems. People need to be able to see in order to work. If you…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My son and his family used dental and vision coverage before he qualified for employee-provide HC coverage, and were grateful for it! Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: The hospitals in my community will see increased ER usage.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Both my family and community have benefited from dental and vision care. I work for an HIV/AIDS Ryan White clinic. We all know that good oral/dental health is tied directly to overall health, and even more so to patients with HIV/AIDS. Taking these benefits away will cost us more in the long…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People are able to take care of their gum hygiene better Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Patients who do have anyone in their household that is able to drive them around and get to get to doctors appointments

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: If it wasnÍt for Medicaid, I wouldnÍt have gotten the proper dental care I needed after having my son. Now, IÍm worried about my son getting the dental care he really needs! Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: If my son doesnÍt get…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Dental care is basic essential health care, necessary for good health. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I have worked with dialysis patients who require transportation three times per week. Eliminating this benefit is potentially a death sentence for some.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I have been able to get preventive and standard treatment for conditions that would have become severe if not treated promptly by primary care. Two such treatment meant I could return to work within days, rather than losing my job. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family,…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My son is legally blind but doesn’t qualify for SSI. I am out a great amount of money on medication and glasses for him. For a brief period of time, he qualified for expanded Medicaid and it was a huge help for me to be able to give him his inhalers and…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: It is a negative situation removing benefits from patients in our community. Can we remove the same benefits from the governors community and let him see how he feels. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: This has a negative impact on the community…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I possibly have hereditary eye problems from my mother and need access to vision care Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Same as above. Vision care is important due to hereditary concerns

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: she is diabetic and needs her eyes checked often. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: we have a plan through humania and they pay allher bills.We had to have a medical card in order for her to have Michelle p Waiver.We were told…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People get the care they need. Dental and vision are as important as medical care. Not everyone can afford a vehicle or have someone they can depend on to take them to appointments so they can get the care they need. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People canÍt afford it Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: People will have to do without

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People need it Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: CanÍt afford it in my own

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Comprehensive services are needed to adequately care for the human body. Furthermore in doing so, it is also the most economical, the most caring and the right thing to do. Without these services my family member would not be as healthy today Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you,…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Overall health, transportation to day programs. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Isolating individuals and risking their overall wellbeing.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Public health requires the public to have access to healthcare. Many diseases stem from poor dental care. And who can do anything for themselves without glasses if they need them? Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Public health requires the public to have…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It might get people to have to do something for themselves in instead of waiting on a hand out from the government people who have worked all there lives and now need it canÍt get anything but…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I would be able to get help Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It take from are bill money for us to live

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: While these benefits seem superfluous to many, dental and vision problems lead to greater issues. I am not covered by Medicaid, but I have a heart murmur, which allows blood to leak back and pool in my…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People are able to get care they need instead of having to go without Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Reduced quality of life

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Improves health drastically of people Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Great decline in health and work attendance, increases in # of people asking for disability payments

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I think coverage for vision, dental and transportation are as important as coverage for other health related problems Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: People I know and care about would lose coverage

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I received glasses that I definitely need for driving. Also cataracts that will need surgery in a year or so. My extremely dry eyes, now have the medical drops to keep them healthy. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I wouldn’t have been…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: College student on financial aid has no way to pay for insurance. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Many children would not have vision or dental care. Poor dental care can lead to many more dangerous & expensive conditions.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My kids were on Medicaid for a time when their employers did not offer health insurance. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I really worry about the effects of ending the program on the community.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I already had my Medicaid terminated on Feb 28 of this year by the state because I started receiving Medicare 2 years after I started receiving disability.. I was told I could not have both. I appealed…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Got my eyes examined which normally I couldn’t do cause I couldn’t afford it. I have diabetes and need my eyes examined yearly. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I could go blind.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Good vision and dental care Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: People will have pain-could turn to opioids

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Less pain due to dental care, people can see to drive, students can see in school-improved grades Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Car accidents due to poor vision, poor grades due to poor vision, poor health and pain due to gum disease…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Without vision benefits I could lose my eyesight.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: No benefits for myself or anyone in family. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: None !!!!

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People need to be able to get to doctors appointments including mental health care to protect their health. This makes it easier for them to work and contribute to the community. It decreases use of emergency rooms and more costly crisis care including for mental health issues. Dental and vision care also…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Since I’ve had Medicaid I’ve never used the dental benefits because I’m lucky enough to have good teeth. I found an eye dr that takes medacaid for a pair of basic eye glasses and used it once for a new pair of glasses. Eye glasses can get expensive for things like bifocal,…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I canÍt drive so IÍve already missed important doctor visits Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: ItÍs my only way

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I live in Harlan county and many people here are diabetic and have trouble with vision as well as needing dental coverage. We have many elderly disabled people on social security who cannot afford transportation to medical appointments Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I have a relative with no working vehicle who canÍt always get a ride who depends on transportation, but IÍve personally been lucky & not needed or had to use it, but IÍm a breakdown away from being in trouble myself. I had my eye exam back in March & got glasses…