{"id":43,"date":"2014-07-21T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-07-21T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:16:00","slug":"fertile-ground-for-medicaid-pitch-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Fertile ground for Medicaid pitch- The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Remote Area Medical back in western Virginia, as the battle to expand Medicaid rolls on\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The three-day clinic, which relies on more than 1,000 volunteers, will serve as many as 3,000 people before it ends Sunday. The vast majority of patients \u2014 more than 70 percent \u2014 come for dental care, Brock said.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, hundreds of people have every one of their teeth pulled there. Then they put their names into a denture lottery, with the hope of being picked to get a set of false teeth made for them at the next year\u2019s event. Forty-six people were picked from a list of 700 to get dentures this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey pull thousands of teeth here. At the end, they\u2019ll have buckets of teeth,\u201d said volunteer Jennifer Lee, Virginia\u2019s deputy secretary of health and human resources and an emergency room doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Medicaid expansion would not fully alleviate the dental situation. Medicaid does not cover routine dental care for adults or dentures. But Medicaid does pay for emergency tooth extractions, so patients would not have to wait a year to have a bad one pulled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just had an 18-year-old have a full mouth extraction because she\u2019s never had dental care,\u201d said Beth Bortz, who runs the Virginia Center for Health Innovation. \u201cIt\u2019s not unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said patients often want their good teeth removed, too, because they associate teeth with pain. She said health-care providers counsel them to keep them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/at-free-va-health-clinic-mcauliffe-tells-the-poor-hes-working-hard-to-help-them\/2014\/07\/18\/cbdc89de-0e7d-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html?hpid=z4\">&#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remote Area Medical back in western Virginia, as the battle to expand Medicaid rolls on\u2026 The three-day clinic, which relies on more than 1,000 volunteers, will serve as many as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fertile ground for Medicaid pitch- The Washington Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23,34,31,36,33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-off","category-access-to-treatment","category-dental-care","category-health-disparities","category-medicaid","category-rationing-health-care","category-remote-area-medical"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}