Re: the March 27 article "Wednesday is the last day to comment onΒ AHCCCS"
A lifetime limit and work requirement for Medicaid/AHCCCS would be disastrous for many.
My son is on AHCCCS because he has multiple sclerosis. He is severely disabled. I wonder what paperwork will be required to prove he cannot work β both for our family and for the state.
Many MS patients look like they can work for a while and then an unpredictable exacerbation puts them in the hospital. What employer would want such employees that are so unreliable through no fault of their own?
There are many others who cannot work for many, many reasons and the state would have to be the judge on their lives. That would take intrusive government to a whole new level.
A "life time limit" means that desperate people would one day have no further help for medical care. Hospitals would have to care for these people when they come to ERs with complicated and neglected illnesses. Who pays then?
Patricia Desai
Foothills
