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That is sad.
Functioning in what sense? Politically? Socially? Economically?
You don't lose coverage by working. Many individuals work and are still on Medicaid. In fact a minimum wage job won't be enough to force someone over the threshold to receive Medicaid.
This is laughable. Spend some time in these areas and you can see thousands of hours of work that can be done.Matthias said:
That's good, not the way it sounded. I'm all for making able bodied adults work, except me, but don't want to see the punished for it. I could Google but what's the max they can make and still get Medicaid?
Children have higher thresholds and it is pretty complicated formula but the program is designed for the poor so thresholds are pretty low (even after Obamacare expansion).
Good idea to explain you’re misinformed and won’t do the work to get yourself informed early in a post like this.
So they did expand Medicaid?
why? isn't the comparison accurate?
do you know what contributions Medicaid gives for the above person? you seem to have much better googling skills with that than me or you simply know.
why shouldn't they lose coverage?
that's what I'm thinking tooparasaurolophus said:
Saying stuff like this makes “our side” immediately deem your views as unreasonable.
tell me I'm wrong then
Right now I’m not arguing about what’s the best policy to help people. Rest assured I disagree with you but I don’t want to get sidetracked. All I’m saying is that you should not assume that those that disagree with you about policy are doing so for the purpose of hurting people.
No, it isn’t accurate. And when you repeatedly refer to people as animals, you sound pretty scummy.
What kind of person demonizes everyone in the US who receives any type of welfare benefit?
The kind of person who assumes that everyone receiving welfare is cheating the system, not working and sitting on the couch.
You're wrong. And I'd recommend for the billionth time you not extrapolate the anecdotes of your life out far enough that they become something more than that. Your anecdotes are NOT "the way it is" across the entire country.
show me where I said everyone
what is the view from the side that doesn't want this then? Getting people off social aid, getting people back to work, stopping any and all fraud etc. Those are all positives, surely EVERYONE can agree on ?
Yeah and it’s the Trump supporter mentality to know nothing about the topic but still pretend to be an expert.
CHIP is a bridge program designed to help working poor people get health insurance for their families. It's for workers either too new at their job to qualify for health benefits, or don't make enough money to afford it. It's been a successful program, encouraging people to work without worrying about losing health coverage provided by social safety nets. It's fair to say CHIP got people off social aid, got people back to work, and reduced fraud. If these are positives, surely EVERYONE can agree on, why did the party in power stop funding it?
You have an interesting perspective on the word slavery. If you recall, slaves did a lot of work and were paid nothing.
I'm not sure, I'd have to read on it. I'm assuming its a huge cost to taxayers - the money has to come from somewhere and with huge increases in premium costs and national debt etc there have to be cuts. That's a guess, I'm not sure.
the core problem is having kids with 1 parent too - but yes I see what you're saying and I'd say again wouldn't the problem be that the single mom would need to stay under a certain earned wage to get the money ? and why would she want to make a little more than that earned wage, if she did she'd lose the credit right ?
you can't quit and get a higher paying job? you can't work your way up in the company?
Then why did congress cut taxes? The republicans didnt seem too worried about money when they passed the tax cut.
I really, really, encourage you to spend some time learning a bit about the government budget and what qualifies as “big” or “small”.
Usually I would say it depends on what you count as “working age” and “not working.” However, in this case I can answer with “no, it isn’t a real number.”
Not even close.
You are absolutely adamant in your position/opinion presenting yourself as someone who has a grasp on all the various possibilities well enough to have such adamant opinions, then you post this. So if you don't know or aren't sure, what do you base your assumption of cost on? I really wish you'd go out and read on these subjects with the intention of educating yourself rather than reading on them to find something to support a preconceived notion. I am not trying to single you out, but I kind of am. You're not the only one here that does this sort of thing and certainly not the only one in this country that does. We have entire "news" outlets predicated on this sort of approach and I REALLY wish it would stop.
To be fair he was probably going just off of people he knows. And half of them are also committing disability fraud.
I'm about as "free market", "small government" libertarian as you get, and even I understand that single-payer is better for all. I think the government should be a lot less-involved in a lot of things, but not healthcare.
If you are a citizen of the USA, then you certainly have rights, and some of them cost money - yes.
