Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. I am completely unemployed due to Covid

Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. As a single mother, getting child care needed to work has been extremely difficult, let alone to do anything recreational.

Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. The isolation is affecting my mental health. It took months to get UI and I was terrified for my life.

Tell us more about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected you or your family. COVID-19 has made my work more stressful because my clients need so much help and I and other service providers are stretched thin trying to make enough time to help them all. Many service providers are booked and cannot offer services or have a waitlist.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Can’t pay bills, already fixed income. Barely surviving, has approx. $25 left for food. Leaves lights off and heat down to save on electricity bill.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? May not be able to get some of the needed medicines in order to pay Bill’s or not pay Bill’s to get medicine.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Greatly. Being on disability and a fixed income makes any kind of extra expense very difficult.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Uncertainty of ability to pay

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Decide between food and medical care

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It’s going to make balancing bills even harder.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I will not be able to afford doctor appointments or medicine

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? We are on an extremely tight budget already. We live on my disability pay. My husband is a stay at home dad and my caretaker (I have multiple complex medical problems/disabilities and need help with even the smallest tasks of everyday living). He is diabetic and receives medicaid. He cannot work because he has to care for me…

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? May have to forgo some groceries

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I have no income. Cannot work for chronic illness and no car. I need life saving medications.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I will probably forego doctor’s appointments since I have zero income. Recently I was diagnosed with seizures and can’t work. Not can I get on disability because seizures aren’t considered a disability in the traditional sense.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? May have to forgo some groceries

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I have no income. Cannot work for chronic illness and no car. I need life saving medications.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Have to go to less appointments to cut down on costs

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It will cause us to stretch even more do then we already do just to make it month to month.

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Bills end up on disconnection or I go without things so everyone has them

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Reduced and delayed care

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I don’t work I have no money for co pays. My illnesses will affect employment.

Please tell us how mandatory copays affect you, your family, or your community. This cuts into what grocery and gas money I can come up with. I’ll be deciding which medications I can’t do without and what I can manage to drop. I’ll be pushing back check ins with Drs until there’s an urgent need. It takes so many visits and tests to find cause of situation as it is. I’m already homeless and can’t…

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: It is a benefit to all of us for our state to have more affordable health benefits/services. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: KY had risen slightly – from 47th to 44th in health ranking. Cutting benefits will put us back toward the…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: better teeth Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: bad teeth

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 have been able to obtain all sorts of medical, dental and vision care that they previously had been unable to afford/ Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: As an HIV positive person a dentist could be one first medical professionals 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 just go to the dentist once a year. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: won’t be able to go

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 brother, who on expanded Medicaid, we’re able to get our first dental fist in about 20 years. We had cleanings, multiple fillings, and I was able to get four broken teeth extracted. We were also able to finally get new glasses, which we’d needed for about a decade. Glaucoma…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Underprivileged children rely on this assistance Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Underprivileged children will go without needed vision and dental services

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 more patients wanting to go to the dentist as well as the eye doctor. I’ve had a couple patients who’ve been a able to get teeth pulled and it filled. I’ve had a patient who found out he had an eye disease that was causing headaches. He was…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My community benefits because people cannot be productive if they are not healthy enough. We all benefit from all of us having access to affordable heath care. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: People will work less, be educated less and will seek…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Vision care is extremely important for me because through regular exams I found out I have Glaucoma and now have to visit the eye doctor even more then normal and I could lose my vision without proper care and treatment. Dental care is important to me for preventative reasons. 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: My husband has surgery pending because of the loss of dental care. He has to be cleared by a dentist and without that coverage the surgery he desperately needs wonÍt happen. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My husband just became disabled and…

Beverly May, Nurse Practitioner, Shares Her Medicaid Story

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: My husband works for a non profit organization so the salary is not high and doesnÍt offer health insurance. I am self employed babysitting in my home while I raise and homeschool our two young children. The expanded Medicaid has allowed us to continue working and serving in our community without having…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Work with cts who have HIV and they utilize so many aspects for access to care Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: all of the cts I work with would have major cuts in healthcare