Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Due to my income it would be impossible to have care with out medicaid Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I have high blood pressure and would not be able to get a prescription

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I am able to get a yearly exam and x-rays without having to worry about getting a bill that I would be unable to pay. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I and many other people in my community are extremely poor and…

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 for overall health and can help prevent conditions from becoming more serious. If transportation is not available folks wonÍt seek treatment before conditions become More serious Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Minor health issues can become…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My clients largely depend upon Medicaid to at least partially pay for medically necessary dental procedures and transportation to said procedures. Without this assistance, many of them would be unable to function on a day to day basis. 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: Quality of life for people, and lack of results in many other ailments. Many employers insist personnel have teeth. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: All of the above.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Personally I would be okay if I lose those specific benefits, those are not life or death for me. I think the biggest benefit of vision & dental are children being able to receive preventative care. For adults it’s also beneficial to be able to address vision or dental problems before they…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: IÍve had dental issues over the last few years and lost all my back teeth. I wouldnÍt have been able to afford to get help for dental problems. Especially infections and extractions. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Financial burden of infections going…

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: Yes I need dental that I cant afford and vision care that I cannot afford

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: To be a healthy individual people need access to dental & vision care. If transportation assistance is stopped the more venerable will suffer. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: The community of Kentucky will continue to lag behind the rest of the country…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Countless individuals who are low-income or indigent have been able to receive basic health care with these Medicaid benefits. Without these benefits individuals will no longer be able to afford basic health care, many will then develop depression/anxiety over all the concerns for their physical health, and some may even resort 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 previously worked in a doctors office and saw many patients that would have been otherwise unable to attend necessary appointments via Medicaid provided transportation. The vision and dental care they receive is FAR LESS expensive than needing specialist and surgical care as a result of neglected routine care. It seems very…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Everyone healthier and less stressed is good for us all as a community, in the same way that we all benefit from good quality education for all. A little universal spreading of basic public good is a worthwhile investment by governments. Even looked at thru a lens of profit–the only true value…

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 well known that people who have poor dental health will eventually suffer from other illnesses which will cost them and their communities even more. If people do not have transportation to get to healthcare than health conditions can only worsen which again costs more in the long run. Please tell…

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 isnÍt able to work and the Medicare coverage is a blessing to her. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My daughter, and so many like her, would not continue to be healthy without the Medicare coverage.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People who can’t afford these benefits will not have access to this important medical care Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It will cost more money n the long term

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I believe that all benefits are important but I also appreciate that there are only so many funds to meet all of the needs. Direct medical care would take precedence over dental vision and transportation. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: 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: without transportation assistance, community members are not able to access any type of needed healthcare, and may need to wait until a medical situation becomes an “emergency” to access ambulance services, which are more expensive. Without vision coverage, adults who need glasses to drive, work, etc. might not be able to obtain…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I am visually impaired, so I actually *need* to use the vision care. Glasses cost so much nowadays that I wouldn’t be able to afford them without help. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would have to continue to wear my existing…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: If my daughter-in-law and granddaughter wasn’t able to get dental or vision care, they wouldn’t be able to afford going for these services. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Children and adults will not have a way to see a dentist or eye…

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 who works in education, I have seen first hand the damage that a lack of access to care can do to children. A child who cannot see the board will struggle in school. A child who is in pain from an untreated cavity will not be able to focus. 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 dad was on Medicaid before he died and relied heavily on the vision care and transportation services. He had weekly therapy to relearn how to walk and live on his own. Thanks to these services he was able to recover enough to live without assistance. I donÍt know what we would…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Helps all citizens have an opportunity to improve and maintain their health. We are all one family and what helps One ultimately helps us all. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Population as a whole becomes less healthy and ER cost rise.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: I want the community I live in to respect basic human rights. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Elimination of such benefits undercuts the basic concern for one another that should undergird every community.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Bad for Kentuckians. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: How will it not!!!!

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Bevin continues war on people in poverty, cutting vision and dental. What a low life SOB. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Bevin continues war on people in poverty, cutting vision and dental. What a low life SOB.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Healthier people are better students and workers. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Healthier people make better citizens.

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 family member who has Medicaid, and any intelligent person knows that keeping the teeth and eyes healthy are crucial to good health! Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Possibly lose teeth, which would cause them not to eat properly, which…

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 partner works 40 hours a week as a temp tech at UK, and therefore does not qualify for employer sponsored insurance. He has been denied for private insurance, so Medicaid is the only option if he…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My families access the transportation assistance benefit to make sure their children get the hearing healthcare they need to fully participate in their education. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: This decision jeopardizes the ability of many Kentuckians to receive needed services. Dental…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Working people can finally afford medical insurance (including dental and vision until this past weekend.) People who fell through the cracks before finally had healthcare. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I desperately need healthcare. I am on a limited income and can…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My nephews parents are deceased and his grandparents are now his legal guardians but they are retired. Medicaid Allie was him to have all medical services that 71 year olds on a fixed income can not financially afford. 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 epilepsy and was denied disability but I am unable to work full-time. Because of this I am unable to afford out of pocket dental care. I was unable to go for a dental cleaning for about 8 years before Medicaid Expansion. When I did to go the dentist my teeth…

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 helps everyone, not just the people on Medicaid. ItÍs just the right thing to do! Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It hurts my heart that our governor can be so uncaring and callous!

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 dental care that has been crucial because although my teeth have no cavities, the roots of my upper teeth are inflamed causing great pain to my mouth which affects eating and sleeping. I have been able to get vision care and glasses so I can see,…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My relative has been able to obtain all needed dental and vision care since she has Medicaid. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My relative would be unable to afford dental care if not for her Medicaid benefit.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: We benefit really well with it Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It would affect me and my daughter bad. For one , she 5 months old she’s going back and forth to the doctor. Me on the other hand , it would…

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 sons would be unable to get the care they need, dental and vision is important where they are in school and need eye glasses, I am also diabetic and need vision 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 did not have vision or dental benefits before 2014 and was u aware that I had diabetes and high blood pressure until I got insured. Both these services are very important in maintaing a normal way of life. I would think that I would be much more of a burden 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’ve had a lot of Dr appts this year and wasn’t allowed to drive most of the time. I don’t have anyone to chauffeur me Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: I would be crippled and homeless. Though getting an eye exam and…