Considering the fact that basic rent in in Seattle (judging by my recent search attempts) is 1,200 for the shittiest of places within an hour of the city. Health insurance is at least 400 a month for a healthcare plan that is basically worthless, but legally required (thanks Obamacare!)
"Basically worthless" plans are now illegal and a silver level plan for someone at the minimum wage full time now costs about 100 a month (assuming they don't just get the free medicare expansion).
Thanks Obamacare!
It's all well and fine for people to treat politicians like idiots when they screw up, but when a politician fixes a problem and then you complain at them for not fixing it you are the cancer that is killing
b America.
My understanding of why many medical practices don't accept Medicaid is that not only do they get paid a lot less, but they have to fill out reams of paperwork and then wait forever for the money to show up.
I worked in a office that accepted Medicaid. The paperwork wasn't a hassle, they just paid less.
I'm sure that if you try and nickle and dime medicaid they would push back and you'd get lots of paperwork that way. But medicaid and medicare patients were a minor and uncomplicated part of my workload. Even Tricare (military benefits outside the VA system) were more paperwork for me. A large part of my day was mailing around unnecessary paperwork for the private insurance claims. Basically the insurers created work to see if we would fail through either oversight or frustration and let them off the hook. Medicaid and medicare never did that, for them it was a question of if the claim was legit, not if they could dodge it.
I suspect that a lot of doctors offices would rather pay for 10 dollars of administrative labor then give up 9 dollars of medicaid money and that's why everyone doesn't talk about how medicaid and certainly medicare is so much easier. But that would require them to be people with souls who do medicine to help people rather then moneygrubbing dirtbags.