Smokers Could Lose Medicaid Here's Why...

I came across a frightening article where smokers and people who are overweight may lose medicaid. It's a new bill trying to be passed. I couldn't help to share it here.

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Sen. Joe Negron wants fat Floridians and smokers to get healthy or else.

Included in Negron’s revamp of the state-federal Medicaid program – which Negron will release tomorrow – is a component aimed at what senators are calling “personal responsibility.”

Sen. Don Gaetz, a Niceville Republican who helped craft Negron’s bill, said Medicaid patients have to take control of their health care just as he had to do when his doctor told him to lose weight.

“We’re saying that an individual who’s been diagnosed as morbidly obese needs to be on a medically-directed program of weight loss to manage that health care problem that could turn into an increased taxpayer liability. The same thing with smokers,” Gaetz said.

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I'm a smoker and I hate it when people tell me "I have to do this...." and "I have to do that...". But the only positive I can see is people may get healthier doing this. Although, it's not about just doing it. It's about the motivation. Some people just need a bigger must.

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