@TheLostOgle shows 'What Americans Forget about #Medicaid' @NonDocMedia @GovStitt #Medicare

The Lost Ogle reports that Oklahoma's Governor Stitt suggests that we vote against "Medicare expansion" when the question comes before voters in 2020.

And the comments howl (seeming unwittingly-stupid, like 'comedy-club miscreants heckling a comic who (they don't know) is deaf'), as if 'not buying health-insurance' is tantamount to 'volunteering for death-by-firing-squad.'

This is where my ignorance shows (though it seems to me like the complainers are the ignorant ones)—because I don't know exactly how 'having insurance' affects the health-services one purchases ...

I think I have health-insurance, but not 'the way most people have it'—because of my TBI, I'm not legally independent; so 'my' health-insurance is "my guardian's health-insurance (I think it's arranged by their employer, so payment is taken out of their salary)."

So I hear (at-least 'the reason many Americans think 'no health-insurance' means 'no medical services') that you often "have to have health-insurance" to be arrange for medical services (the same way you "have to have proof-of-insurance" when driving where you might be stopped by a cop? ... I also don't drive).

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The word “Medicaid” (System for Providing Public Funds to Persons who Need Assistance with Medical Expenses) carries the scent of “Medical + Aid” (American Program set up in Title XIX (right after Medicare in Title XVIII) of the 1965 Social Security Act).

"Medicare" (a program-type originated in Canada) is essentially 'Medicaid-provisions for the Elderly,' with scents of "Medical + Care."

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Maybe the Federal government should change 'the name of those programs' (each of them OR both of them) to "MediPayer" and/or "MediPaid" (or–if they want to be sure people know it's 'Medical' and not 'Medi-"something else" (Meditational, Medium, Mediterranean)'–they could make it "MedicaPayer" and/or "MedicaPaid").