Re: BUSH IN ISREAL

On Sat, 31 May 2008 17:42:24 -0500, "da pickle"
<jcpickels@(nospam)hotmail.com> wrote:

"Dutch"

Some people actually try to address the substance of the topic once in a
while, you should too.

I've been gone a couple of days. Nothing much seems to have changed.

We need a simple comment.

If you do not have enough money to afford medical insurance, you can get on
Medicaid.

If you are 65, you get on Medicare. It is as simple as that.

And if you're in between poverty and wealth, and you don't have
insurance, and you end up with a serious, chronic disease that
requires expensive care you can't afford, you have to spend down your
assets to poverty level to qualify for Medicaid, probably quitting
your job to do so, even if you could otherwise have worked, and then
you are also a drain on society from not working and paying taxes.

Surely you can see why this is a perverse incentive and costs more
than having a working healthcare system in the first place.
.

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: BUSH IN ISREAL
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  • Re: Brilliant Idea -- Give the SS Trust Fund a private account.
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