Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Healthy people make a healthy community Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Unhealthy people make an unhealthy community

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 this my grandchildren could not go to the dentist Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: They could not go

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Some people cannot afford dental or vision on their own and that leads to multiple problems in their health that may have been avoided. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It will make it harder to get necessary help at the correct locations…

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 has glasses and has to be seen 2x year because he has pressure behind his eyes.I canÍt afford for him to see specialist and me pay out of pocket.Therefore chance he could go blind without proper care but we donÍt have the money Please tell us how eliminating these benefits…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: As a community with a large population dependent on Medicaid coverage for preventive healthcare, this is the only way to empower the community for self responsibility geared to improved health. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Without these benefits the preventable, and monitoring…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I used to be a outreach worker for needed families and I know how much these services are needed. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Would have to go without important services

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: The health problems suffered by my family members has to do a lot with the importance of a vision screening and checkup for eye health!!! Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It would be devastating to not be able to afford a vision…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My grand children have been able to receive preventive care. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Without these benifits my grandchildren will be unable to receive any dental care nor will they have the glasses they need.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My grandchildren and daughter in law have been able to get glasses, fillings, extractions and transportation to UK when my grandson had to be life flighted to the NICU. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Children will no longer get the required vision…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Diabetes complications worsen with lack of dental care. Checkups help make sure my mom is OK. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Kentucky was a leader in expanding Medicaid which was important because of the prevalence of poverty here. We were a role…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Decreased ER visits, less need for free clinics Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Individuals will use the ER at much higher rates, drug addiction will increase and drug seekers will soon learn the easy way to obtain narcotics

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: We need to reduce the number of people on government assistance. Everywhere you go, you see employment opportunity signs. If we donÍt fill these positions the industries will pull out of KY. Why not encourage people to…

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: No longer can get dental causing a lot of health problems

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Oral care is paramount for overall good health. An abscessed tooth can turn septic. Vision care can lead to stroke prevention, along with other eye care issues, such as cataracts. If you don’t drive, you cannot get to appointments. It gives especially one pause, if our governor is trying to “thin the…

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: My son has to take a lot of medicine, blood pressure and other kinds, he would die if he didn’t have his medicine, not to mention if he has an emergency and needs to go to the…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Keeps patients out of ER and in provider offices for care Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Increases ER visits instead of PCP’s and dentists, etc.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Able to get patients out of pain so that they can eat, also my son was born with a disability he benefits from Medicaid Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: People who are unable to afford dental care will be unable 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: The Shawnee Community has improved tremendously in both Dental and Vision Care, which has made a huge difference in those patients’ lives. And without adequate transportation, they would not be able to benefit from these services. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: The…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My children in particular have benefitted, and so have many of the clients that I work with…..especially with helping to fix oral health issues. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Many will not be able to afford corrective lenses or dental care that…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I recently started having severe dental issues. I had some work done and granted Medicaid doesn’t cover a lot on dental it did save me from using my care credit for charge for the procedures I had such as the basic visits and stays . I currently have a $500 dental bill…

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: This is the only way I can afford any type of medical coverage

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Those who had not previously had access to care (at an affordable level) had gone YEARS, literal YEARS, without any sort of medical care. My father in law could have used some medical care in that time, but according to the guidelines at the time, he did not qualify for any assistance….

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I come from a low-income family and so having Medicaid coverage really does help us with what we need. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: For myself, I am having some dental issues and now have to find a way to pay out…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: A healthy community is more productive and as a Tax Accountant in my community I see the devastation an illness can bring to a family without insurance. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I am a single person with insurance so these benefits…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Routine vision and dental care are part of maintaining overall health, thereby reducing overall health care costs Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Increase in oral disease which will impact overall health.

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 and vision care are important. I would not be able to go to eye exams if I had to pay for them. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would not get the necessary eye care that my family and I…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I work for government providing housing to the homeless. Dental coverage is essential for persons coming from the street life. They often have serious dental issues that compromise their everyday health. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Of the 236 persons we provide…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: We have used the dental care every 6 months to keep our teeth healthy and not my husband and I wear glasses so the vision exams have also been helpful. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: We would end up not going to…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I was just about to schedule dental cleanings. Am newly widowed and its been a year since my and my dependants teeth were cleanwd, back when we had commerial insurance rhroufh my late husband’s employer. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Dental healrj…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: We have been able to go in for regular eye exams, the whole family of six, every year in order to take care of our eyes. this has provided two of my children glasses, they needed taking care of critical medical needs. My whole family has been going faithfully to the dentist…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I was able to get glasses for the first time in years. I can finally see clearly again. This is important to me as a student. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would struggle with vision – an increasingly important element as…

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 had to have surgery on my eyes and I have cateracts that needs kept a close eye on. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I wouldnÍt be able to go to the eye doctor or dentist because I only draw $755….

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My father is severely physically disabled and sometimes needs help getting to and from appointments when he has them. Transportation assistance is an important part of our lives when my parents do not have a vehicle and I cannot get time away from work. Both of my parents have lost all of…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: If people can’t see, they can’t take care of themselves and others. They can’t contribute to society. If people’s teeth are unhealthy, their whole body will be unhealthy. A dental abscess can kill. It is the least we can do to help people have a decent quality of life. Please tell us…

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 had Medicaid in the past and needed dental work badly as it is a big part of our health. Dental procedures are already outrageously high and hugely limited which drastically puts poorer people at more health risks in the future. 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: I have worked in high poverty schools for 14 years and have seen the benefits Medicaid has had for kids needing glasses to engage in learning and their self confidence once they can see. I am not as knowledgeable about dental care except for the research about the affect of poor dental…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Two of my children received dental braces on Friday, June 29th. They were both having serious gingivitis, tooth decay, and mouth infections from severe overcrowding. It was essential that they have them put on to stop these issues from becoming worse, causing the possibility of decaying teeth and the permanent loss of…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: As someone with very poor eyesight I understand that if a person canÍt see it can affect everything. Legally I cannot drive a car without my glasses. I couldnÍt work without them. BevinÍs mean spirited actions are not helpful. I have vision insurance. Last August my new eyeglasses prescription, WITH insurance, was…

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: My son would not be able to keep his therapy appointments without Medi-Cab.

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 vision loss because of an accident when I was 4. 20 years later I still have vision maintenance I need to take care of. I also have several cavities my dentist was in the middle of fixing. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or…