The drug addict on Medicaid already goes to the er for nonemergency illness’s twice as often as private insurance holders. It already costs us more because he is too lazy to work and is too lazy to make a doctor’s appointment.
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This is why you have the lazy and entitled. You’ve been subsidizing their ■■■■■■■■ for so long they feel entitled to everyone else’s money for simply existing and breathing.
People expected to support that ■■■■■■■■■■■■ are getting rather tired of working and getting nowhere because they have to support not only themselves and their family but those who choose to exploit people like you who feel they all should be paid for existing.
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Howdy Ferg, Yeah I feel the same way.
Now here is the challenge:
This is from the Congressional Budget Office
(I have added the colors, but the rest is simple copy and paste)
Here is the same table, but on the right I have added (in red)
each spending level that is not a total or subtotal
See those red numbers?
Our challenge is to cut $1,901 from the total.
That would balance the budget.
canada does and they are okay with it.
Allan
You should hop the border and help them perpetuate that utopia.
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nothing wrong with importing good ideas from other countries.
Allan
Central to the savings are changes to Medicaid, which provides almost free health care to more than 70 million Americans, and the Affordable Care Act, which has expanded in the 15 years since it was first approved to cover millions more.
To be eligible for Medicaid, there would be new “community engagement requirements” of at least 80 hours per month of work, education or service for able-bodied adults without dependents. People would also have to verify their eligibility to be in the program twice a year, rather than just once. The bill also adds a more rigorous income verification for those who enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health care coverage.
Basically, they want people how do not have dependents to do some kind of work, or go to school, to get medicaid.
Plus, they want people to verify their eligibiligy twice a year, and check income verification more closely.
I have a question for you: Why are you against this?
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If I get sick and don’t pay my copays it afects my credit, I can’t rent a place and will be homeless.
Yet a Jose Mose who never worked and used Welfare money to buy drugs just waltzes into a hospital and everything is free and paid by Medicaid.
PLUS…he gets home and his rent is paid, he gets food stamps, his walgreens delivers his free medications, he has a free phone etc. because he is " poor ".
Do you understand THAT?
The living situations are completely reversed.
Bums get everything free and hard working ones get homeless.
When Medicaid was established it served certain group of people.
Now it’s free-for-all…come and get it.
So…?
I HAVE insurance and still do without things I need.
Medicaid gives THEM everything for free.
Now…if they lose Medicaid they TOO will do without just like the rest of us mortals do when we don’t pay for something.
What kind of logic is it to give Medicaid to " poor " people just because they are poor?
Being " poor " does not mean you can’t go find a job.
Even the Bible says that.
Cut off the freeloaders and the illegals and we can save a bundle.
Sums it up perfectly.
Didn’t say there was. This isn’t one of them.
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I extended “A man who will not work shall not eat” to a modern context. The Word gives us the answers, if we but look to Him for guidance.
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Amen to that.
The people of Jamestown made a similar proclamation.
They had some able bodied not wanting to work too.
Tell the rest of it, how this “good idea” would involve increasing payroll taxes on working Americans by an additional estimated 23 % to cover putting it under nanny big government.
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So did the Pilgrims after idle young men led to starvation under the original Mayflower Compact.
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I wasn’t aware of that one.
I will remember that one too.
Canada is not a good idea.
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The original Mayflower Compact was a wonderful example half-baked communal utopianism. It made the agricultural output and associated fields communal instead of individual (by household). All of the food gathered and grown was made community property, dolled out to industrious man, and laggard, alike. As in all things involving cows and free milk, the laggards among us will not put forth payment (effort) for what one can get for free.
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Why are you so insistent on literally rewarding failure
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