How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? If a service or provider isn’t covered by Medicaid, my family’s issues won’t be taken care of until they become emergencies.

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Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. A co-pay (and the uncertainty surrounding its cost differing by provider & type of service) prevents my family & many others from getting care when they need it. The cost of an cavity triples to the cost of a root canal a few years later. Being turned away from a non-Medicaid provider for maintenance immunizations, turns into more illnesses down the road. These co-pays add more to slow down the process of receiving care (by adding cost without setting standards for who will charge that cost & providing who will accept your insurance at all). This fear & uncertainty only benefits those who profit off our health care system and does nothing to address the incredible need for free access to preventive services our community needs.