Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Proper dental care is important for more than just teeth. Good oral hygiene affects bacteria levels throughout your body, and has been shown to impact cardiac health as well. When I moved to Kentucky, I believe I was told that Kentucky ranked near the bottom of states in terms of dental care…

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:

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 family that has to take care of their disabled child and without this type of coverage they would have to just eliminate all care. they could not afford to go to the doctor. they would never go to the dentist or have their eyes checked Please tell us how eliminating…

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 daughter is currently covered under exoanded medicaid, its essential she continue to recive benefits, minimum wage jobs do not provide financial means to afford debtal and eye care.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Growing up, we hit hard times when my father was laid off and between jobs. Without Medicaid we would never have been able to afford doctor visits and keep our health in check. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Hard times can hit…

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 not have any insurance if I didn’t have Medicaid Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: So many people don’t have transportation and now can’t get to appointments. I know a lady who has cancer and she has to have all her…

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 is paramount to a healthy life. Everyone, especially those that cannot afford it, in our community deserves to have access to basic dental and vision care. 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: 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: 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: If I donÍt have glasses, I canÍt get a job, drive or even see five foot in front of me. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I could not afford to get my teeth cleaned.

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 medical care. A tooth abscess can cause brain damage, heart attack, and death. Having a toothache can cause loss of productivity, inability to go to work, and loss of wages. If people do not have proper glasses or contacts, they cannot see to work, read, or drive. 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: Saved me from a lot of expensive dental treatment. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It would harm my health and that of other local residents.

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 lived in rural Kentucky, and have seen the crippling poverty that permeates both the rural and urban areas of the Commonwealth. Dental, vision, and transportation coverage mean a better quality of life for Kentuckians below the poverty line. 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: I work at Cincinnati Children’s hospital. We have patients that rely on these benefits to keep children healthy. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Some children in my community will not get the preventative and necessary medical care they need to stay healthy.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: decaying teeth or vision disease cannot support toward sustainable living Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: The working poor cannot even afford small fees- everyone needs access to adequate health care.

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:

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: If I did not have the coverage I would not be able to afford medical care. This is vital for me Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would be very sick as I depend on the care and medicine

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: If I did not have the coverage I would not be able to afford medical care. This is vital for me Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would be very sick as I depend on the care and medicine

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:

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 have Medicaid and used the se services Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It would hurt quite a lot of ppl in my community

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Glasses that are needed & dental care when necessary. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Would not be able to pay for glasses, exam or dental care.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Even though we do not receive these benefits, I personally know children who have greatly benefitted from dental and vision assistance, without this benefits they would not have glasses. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Children would go without vital vision and dental…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: The Medicaid coverage allowed me to receive dental care for the 1st time in 20 years! And my dependant son wouldn’t be able to see the board at school if the insurance didn’t cover his glasses. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: When our son died in 2003, it left our grandson and his mother without dental & vision coverage. He was able to get dental and vision via medicaid. Beacause of these benefits, his Mother was able to complete college and find employment which provided insurance for him and his mother. BEVIN needs…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I need my glasses to drive, work, and attend school. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I hope to start a decent-paying job with benefits now that I’ve earned my professional license, but what happens in the interim? I was about to get…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: We qualified for KChip through the Medicaid previously, which helped our family to maintain medical, dental and vision care for our children. At the time, my husband was the only one working and our only income. Paying for coverage on just ourselves, as adults, was difficult, to say the least, as our…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My parents run a small philanthropic organization which promotes the education of poor children in Louisville and works to help them break the cycle of poverty. We see that if one wants to rise above poverty, it takes more than a desire or even access to a good education. One needs to…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Going to the dentist at least once a year is important for my health and so having the cost of that covered is a great benefit to me. Same for vision care, for I wear glasses regularly. 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 don’t own a car so rides to dr’s appt has helped immensely! I would not have been able to read if it were not for getting glasses from Ophthalmologist Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: no rides to dr, no help with…

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:

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:

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Made medical care affordable for my daughter and her children. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: A lack of preventive care will result in higher costs from sicker people.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My whole family was on Medicaid while I was in nursing school. I am proud to pay my taxes for Medicaid, and proud to take care of Medicaid patients. It should be expanded, not cut. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I have…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Me and my daughter have to have dental and vision. Your eyes and teeth are important especially when you have a severe toothe ache. I don’t see why bevin don’t care about the vision and dental health of us people in Kentucky. He’s making cuts where cuts don’t need to be made…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: It has enabled me to get dental care for my children, including removal of two teeth, which I could have never afforded on my own. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would be unable to afford dental care for anyone 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: Healthy population is better for all. Plus, I have a soul. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Lack of access to rooting care helps stop disease before it reaches emergency stage.

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:

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I had to have my bottom teeth removed and I would have been unable to pay for these services since below the federal poverty line. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I have diabetes type 2 and without my coverage I would not…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Dental and vision care are important components in preventative medicine, and they help kids and adults succeed in school and work. Transportation is vital since KY has very limited public transit, especially in rural areas. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I’m a…

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: