Should Medicaid be in the business of handing out lifestyle-enhancing medications to anybody?
This columnist says no: “No, of course not. It should focus on necessities. Medicaid is about people who need a temporary hand up, about chronically sick children or ill seniors in long-term care. As Florida’s health secretary, Alan Levine, put it: ‘It’s a safety net. They didn’t think of Medicaid as a program for lifestyle-enhancing drugs.'”
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