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 in Kentucky is already one of the lowest in the country. If this coverage is taken from Medicaid recipients we will decline even more. It’s already bad enough that many adults with Medicaid don’t even know they had the coverage, I didn’t until my PCP told me. It’s widely thought…

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: Although I don’t have medicaid now I at one time had to rely on medicaid and had to use the transportation for minor surgery in Louisville since I had no one else able to do it and would not have been safe for me to drive myself. I was also able to…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My dad uses mediciad transportation since the nursing home doesnt have thier own service. I was able to get all my childrens eye exams done by a licensed pediatric opthamologist and see a pediaitric dentist to correct birth issues with my daughters mouth. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I skipped the dentist for four years. I consider teeth and eyes as part of the human body and should be treated just as much as any other body part. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Possible tooth loss. If I canÍt get…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: The dental and vision exams allotted to me by Medicaid are an important tool for spotting potential health risks early. To me there are an essential part of preventive care. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Especially with dental care, I may have…

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 severe dental problems. It was already bad enough that only 2 oral surgeons in Western Ky would accept extended Medicaid. Now we have none. I need help really bad. My mouth is infected all the time. Please help us we have got to have good Dentist and Oral Surgeons. PLEASE….

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: These are obvious and necessary parts of basic healthcare. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My family requires dental and vision care and can not afford these services on their own. I was also previously a Medicaid recipient and this would have impacted…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: This is needed for the poor who depend on it, it allows them to be healthy. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I suppose if people can’t afford eye care to be able to see they can always apply for SSI benefits because…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Semi-annual dental care is critical to my overall health. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I have a heart condition. If I don’t get regular checkups, my cardiac health could be compromised.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Poor dental care contributes to poor health, being able to see is a fundamental need and benefits are not worth much if you canÍt get to the doctor. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Reduced services reflects on all of us.

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, especially for young citizens, impacts oneÍs overall health. From an economic standpoint, preventive dental care saves much more than the cost of treating preventable dental problems. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Eliminating vision coverage will have a negative impact on…

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: The separation of vision and dental health from other forms of health care is arbitrary and uninformed. Health is a function of full bodies, and dental issues in particular often cause significant health issues that reverberate for…

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 have been able to get their teeth fixed and glasses due to the coverage. My son works very hard as a court security officer but does not earn enough for these things. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My community will…

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 gone to my dentist and optometrist regularly since receiving that coverage under the medicaid expansion plan in 2014. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Dental and vision care is necessary for my overall care. I don’t understand why any insurance sets…

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 know what its like to need glasses and dental work and not be able to afford to get it. It is known that poor dental health leads to digestive issues. Dental insurance can help reduce trips…

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 keeps me out of the er. Eye care helps people see and go to work. Transportation matters to people who do not have wheelchair accessible vans. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It kills people.

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 terrible oral health before getting medicaid, because we couldn’t afford it when I was a child and I couldn’t afford it as an adult. I finally got most of my mouth repaired and I didn’t have to worry about pain or anxiety of having to figure out how to pull…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: xrays for cavities between teeth, glaucoma screening for eyesight, new eye glasses Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: no way to be able to go to the dentist or to get eye prevention screenings

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: There are people who need assistance & cant afford to pay for insurance Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: So many people would lose medical coverage, & would suffer

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My daughter doesn’t have medical insurance because her 2 part time jobs dont have coverage. She is a hard worker but insurance is expensive and everyone should have access to insurance. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It’s going to put a great…

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: Plenty of people on Medicaid are disabled, elderly, or a child. Punishing these groups is wrong in every way!

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: It provides a necessary health benefit to those who can’t afford insurance. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: it would eliminate access to care.

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 on Medicaid a few years back. I was a single unemployed new mother and I was caring for my mother who had liver cancer. During that time, my teeth were horrible. My teeth were literally black and I was ashamed to smile or even talk. Because of the Medicaid dental…

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 receives Medicaid through SSI benefits. He has multiple medical issues and his vision and dental care are extremely important to his overall health. To not provide eye and dental care is fiscally irresponsible. Problems with these systems can impact overall health in significant ways. It is FAR more cost effective…

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 benefits help keep Kentuckians healthy. Without Dental benefits people with Diabetes and other illnesses could face life threatening complications. Transportation is essential in getting patients to medical appointments. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My community will be impacted in…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I coordinate a Summer Food Service Program, and work with hundreds of families in my community. There is not doubt that expanded medicaid ensured children and their care takers were getting care they needed, especially grandparents raising grandchildren who lack transportation to specialists in Lexington. 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: People getting the healthcare they need provides economic advantages; more jobs, more money spent in the community, and a more healthy population Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: People getting the aid they need will be hurt health-wise.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: if you take care of dental and vision makes less expense later on Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: my sister would have a terribly hard time as I know others would also

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Many members of my community have received care for dental and vision services once they has the opportunity. Many of our adult patients had never had a dental exam – and did not understand the overall health concernsthat could be address with dental care. We have had an opportunity to change lives…

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 secondary Sjogren’s syndrome caused by rheumatoid arthritis which makes dental and vision care imperative to prevent tooth loss and the chronic dry eye which is one of the major symptoms of Sjogren’s syndrome, and can lead to scarring and infection of the eye. 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: I have two friends covered under the expansion. They are both college educated and work full-time. The jobs they have are low-income jobs that do not offer health insurance. i.e. cleaning houses. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: If low-income workers loose Medicaid…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Many people in Eastern Kentucky do not have transportation or money for fuel, many live more than 15 miles from providers. Some have children that need transportation to and from Medical and Dental providers. There is no room for the right or the left, this is not about politics, its about humanity…

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 will have a huge impact on all families

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: A lot of low and middle class families still do not have access to proper medical care. Medicaid has helped when they needed it! Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: These families will go without the medical care they desperately need!

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 brittle teeth that are broken and didn’t have insurance at all until the ACA.I had planned on getting my teeth fixed,after I saved up enough money,but the lack of job opportunities fell for me and set me back and was hoping it would cover the cost for me,until now.Now,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: n/a Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Things not handled early build to serious, more costly and more painful conditions that could be avoided through preventative dental/vision coverage.

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 healthcare. Dental health in particular can have a detrimental impact on health which can increase costs for medical services if not treated. Transportation is crucial to help families reach medical services at a distance from their home particularly in rural counties. Please tell us how eliminating these…

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 impact overall healthcare and well being. Poor dental care leads to various other health conditions such as endocarditis; poor nutrition, etc. Poor vision leads to ones inability to adequately take needed medications; read vital information about healthcare and health conditions. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Because I am a human being and my health is worth preventing failures. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: As the breadwinner in a single parent household, my self care teaches my children important lessons about the value of my life, and theirs,…