Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

Yes they are. I looked up this list of University hospitals, went to the section for the US, and took the first selection of the first 8 states. Going by website or phone call, here are the answers to the question of whether they accept patients with Medicaid.
1. Providence Alaska Medical Center. Yes.
2. Univ or Alabama Hospital, Birmingham. Yes
3. Banner University Medical Care Center Phoenix. Yes.
4. University of Colorado Hospital- University of Colorado School of Medicine. Yes.
5. St. Vincent's (CT) Medical Center. Yes.
7. George Washington University Medical Center, (DC). Yes.
8. U of Florida Medical Center, Jacksonville. Yes.

All eight of the university medical school affiliated hospitals accepted Medicaid. And just for added emphasis, I looked up these two revered institutions that people from overseas fly over to the US to get treated at:

Memorial Sloan Kettering: Yes
Mayo Clinic: Yes.

So virtually all University hospitals accept their state's Medicaid as payment. The world famous Mayo Cinic in Rochester, MN even accepts Medicaid from neighboring North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin as well.

1. On Medicaid you are quite capable of getting treatment for a difficult problem, the whole hospital as at your disposal and you can always go to University Hospitals affiliated with Medical Schools, who have a whole staff of prominent people in the field.

2. "Unnecessary side effects" is a figment of your imagination,

although you will continue to say it as if it was fact.

You have offered no proof whatsoever.

3. Medicaid doesn't pay for deluxe cosmetics, but they offer the standard cosmetics that many private plans allow.

Similarly, they don't offer the deluxe wheelchair with GPS, they pay for the standard wheelchair. As usual, in an effort to take away people's Medicaid and substitute nothing, you are trying to pass off the idea that no cosmetics go with appropriate operations, so when you throw 5 Million people off Medicaid and eliminate their access to health care, it won't seem so horrible.

4. Loss of inheritance: Only applies to people getting Medicaid who are over 55.

Says the man who champions the Trumpcare bill which will take away the healthcare of 5 Million people who now have Medicaid and won't be able to afford Trumpcare, even with the tax credits. You can't talk about the need to treat rare diseases when you want to take away 5 Million people's ability to get professionally treated for any disease at all.

That's the problem. The tax credits from Trumpcare won't even come close to enabling Medicaid recipients who presently earn between $9K and $18K annually to buy insurance from the exchanges. Instead, Trumpcare will simply throw them off Medicaid with no substitute plan that they can afford.

And oh yes, Medicaid has no co-payment. Trumpcare will,

That's nonsense. The poor get the treatment they need, starting with General Practitioners, moving up to specialists, and then, if necessary, a University teaching hospital. And medications are free with no copay, since people making under $18K yearly cannot afford them.

The bill as written does not supply anwhere near the necessary amount of help, the money from the tax credit won't go near the amount of the premiums. As it was written, a 63 year old man making $18,000 yearly would have to pay $25,000 yearly in Trumpcare premiums. Ryan said they adjusted that, but how much adjusting could they do and still call it the same bill? And if this Trumpcare bill passes, come Jan 1 those working poor making between $9K and $18K annually are off Medicare and not able to afford Trumpcare premiums, even with the tax credits.

Believe it or not, this is not the only thing wrong with Trumpcare, but this is enough to render the bill a disaster for the working poor.

The question is not whether a given hospital is willing to accept Medicaid.

The question is whether a given hospital is "within the network" of Medicaid HMOs.

You can't go to a university hospital if that hospital is not in your HMO's network.

That is incorrect. Medicaid will not cover standard cheap cosmetics. People on Medicaid have to make do with cosmetics from the 1800s.

So increase the tax credits until they are large enough to let people afford real insurance.....
....Increase the tax credits until they are big enough......
....If the tax credits are increased enough, they will be able to afford to buy real health insurance......

The Medicaid HMO normally includes every hospital in the state. I know at least three people on Medicaid who had no trouble going to either of two major teaching hospitals 50 miles away, (in different directions).

You are simply inventing something out of thin air.

If the hospital in your state takes Medicaid and you need a referral, you get it.

Anymore Frankenstein type images you want to draw? What procedure do you know of where truly necessary cosmetics aren't used? If cosmetics are necessary, Medicaid will pay.

And cosmetics are secondary to keeping people alive, which kicking the working poor off Medicaid will not do unless subsidies under Trumpcare are radically increased. As Trumpcare stands now, the working poor are facing doom.

When pigs fly. The whole purpose of replacing Obamacare was to water it way down so it will cost the government less. Then Trump during the campaign let himself go and say his new plan will cover everyone and have more benefits, and his voters believed him. Now the Administration is stuck with coming up with this miracle plan that gives more and costs less, and Trumpcare's eviction of the working poor off Medicaid without providing sufficient subsidies, (or "tax credits"), is the answer. Apparently something had to give, and they decided that "something" was working people making between $9K and $18K yearly.

I don't think it's an analogy, it's a fact.

You have the right to bear arms, but medical care is a privilege.

But you're right - no one's paying for your toys or playground.

Always nice to be the privileged as you spiral into a Dickensian dystopia.

You're missing the point - in several ways, but that's hardly surprising.

The right to bear arms is a right.

Medical care is not a right (unless you can show me where it says it is in the constitution and its amendments).

It's about the nature of political discourse - not about who pays for what. Your preconceptions dragged that in.

The idea that you can't be refused medical care in the US is so gobsmackingly bullshitty I can't believe you're saying it. If you can't be refused medical why is health insurance such a freaking fraught topic in your political landscape?

Oh, and if you can't see your privilege. Well, 'nuff said.

I certainly see mine.

Emergency room care: Know your rights - Insure.com
http://www.insure.com/health-insurance/emergency-rights.html
Jul 12, 2016 ... If you go to the emergency room, federal law entitles you to certain rights. ... A hospital must provide "stabilizing care" for a patient with an emergency medical condition.