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: Many people in my communities ty rely on these benefits for basic vision and dental care. Kentucky residents already have lower dental health than many places. Why would we not want our people to be healthy? Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My…

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 provider, I have seen first hand the benefits of this coverage. Dental & vision care have often been neglected due to lack of ability to pay. I am the Health Ministries Coordinator at my church & have referred members to local vision and dental community clinics for much needed 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: You are hurting people that need the most help.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: -Eliminating these costs enables members to better afford their other expenses such as co-pays and other medical bills. -Also for families with multiple children it ensures all children get the dental and vision care they deserve despite the ability for their parent to pay all the heavy costs of multiple children. By…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: After years without dental coverage, I needed fillings on nearly every molar. My teeth were so painful, but KY dental coverage helped me fix everything. I am less angry and work better without constant mouth pain. I also found out I was nearsighted, which explained why driving was so confusing to me….

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 needs all the above benefits, dental and vision are very important to the whole health of an individual. Transportation assistance will impact the community not only for the client that will be unable to attend appointments due to no transportation but it will impact the business that are offering transportation…

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…

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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: Allowing access to dental and vision benefits saves Medicaid recipients from relying on emergency room care which is more costly.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Medicaid dental coverage lessens ER use for dental emergencies, vision coverage helps detect diabetes. Preventive care reduces costs. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Kentuckians will pay more in emergency care, disease will progress further without detection and more work time will be…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Many of my clients have received dental and vision care through Medicaid expansion. Without such coverage, minor issues (e.g., toothache) can turn into major medical issues which would require medical attention and costly care. I have seen firsthand how access to medical and dental care can keep clients healthy and can prevent…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Living so far from town and with no jobs here , the people here need assistance. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Lots of people here in my community would not be able travel and get the treatments they need. Our community 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: The removal of medicade will require citizens to engage in a market place they can’t afford. With a business that is often to necessary for the average citizen to have any ability to bargain.

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 in hemodialysis and our patients utilize transportation services to get to their life saving treatments. It also helps them get to doctor appointments for preventative visits or visits needed when ill. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Losing these benefits would…

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 family really need it right now I don’t work Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: By eliminating these benefits my kids can’t go to the dentist or the eye doctor.

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 important for everyone to have coverage for dental and vision care. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: We can not have a viable work force if they canÍt see properly or have rotten teeth. Aside from the fact that it is…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: The community benefits when children have access to these services. Poor vision/poor dental health has a negative impact on a child’s ability to benefit from instruction. Adults have difficulty working if they are in pain due to poor dental health. DRIVING, and therefore public safety can be impacted by poor vision. Please…

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 students who were failing in school because they couldnÍt see. Medicaid provided eye exams and glasses that they will now lose. The dental clinics brought to the schoolÍs made a difference in oral health. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Children…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Students and families with whom I work need dental and vision care, and many cannot access that care without support from Medicaid. Children with cavities can’t concentrate on learning, and if they can’t see they can’t read. 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 still have healthy teeth however the ins I have will not help pay for my glasses I really need them. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Of course my teeth will decay and will not be able to afford the dentist or…

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: Oral health is directly tied to overall health, specifically cardiac conditions. Eyesight is one of our 5 senses and many diseases and conditions manifest in both these areas. An integrative functional approach will lead to better outcomes. 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: Dental problems cause pain and make it hard to be functioning on a normal level and I can not afford glasses, I am a cancer survivor but the effects of cancer has left me physical disabilities that I will have for the rest of my life. I need dental and 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: Regular check dental check ups and cleanings allowing me to maintain good oral health. I have been able to get vision screenings as I have visual difficulties and allowing my eye Dr. to watch rising pressure in my eyes that may eventually affect my vision. I would not be able to afford…

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 members on Medicaid. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: My family members would not be able to afford dental, vision, and transportation if needed.

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: Right now, I have a tooth that is achy. I had to put off calling my dentist about it due to some family issues…. and then July 1st happened. Today, I had to reschedule – to late…

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 population helps families, businesses, and economies. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: An unhealthy population becomes a burden to the whole community. It negatively affects children in education, and the productivity of the workforce. Preventive health is less expensive than chronic…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: People on Medicaid are there for a reason. Taking away vision, dental, and even transportation is taking away a key part of our health and a way to get to vital appointments. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: If my husband 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: Was able to have some bad teeth pulled that caused me terrible pain daily. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Will have to do without vision and dental. My vision is bad and wonÍt be able to get glasses without Medicaid.

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 was able to have his teeth, which were in very bad shape, extracted. This put a stop to the excruciating pain he dealt with daily and gave him the means to be able to eat again normally. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or…

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 glasses since grade school. I am also diabetic. I need vision and dental care. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: It would put hardship on family to pay up front for dental and vision appointments.

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: Gave them so much they couldn’t afford. Also making it possible for them to keep their apts Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: We wouldn’t be able to afford most of our health care 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 am a diabetic and having vision care is very important to me Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Not having vision care is really bad for me because I can’t have my diabetic eye exams. I have some teeth that needs pulled…

Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance: If patients can’t get to an appointment, why have health care providers at all? Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Many of my neighbors have no car and there is no public transport here. They may have to pay someone up to twenty…

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 in our state are eligible for these benefits and they need them, then they should be able to receive these services. Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: Quality of life would drastically change for our citizens.