Re: BUSH IN ISREAL

"Dutch"

If the "meager" income is "living in poverty" they are eligible for
medicaid.

If they own anything they can sell, they're screwed.

Keep it up, Dutch ... you are getting good at it. What you say is simply
not true.

So you keep saying, but the Medicaid website says it's true.


Only because you apparently do not understand what you read.


If they have a home and a mortgage and a car (and they are not
trying to live above their "meager" income) their income is meager
enough to afford medical insurance.

Either they can afford it or they can't.

If they are not living above their means, they can afford it.

If their income just covers their monthly expenses with a few bucks to
spare then how are they living above their means?


If they are living above their means, they cannot pay for health care
insurance ... what is it that you cannot understand? They pay for a car and
a home and food and clothing and vacations and cable tv and internet access
and the latest and greatest of everything and they run up their credit cards
buying things that they cannot afford ... their "monthly expenses" include
health care insurance, extra money for non-catastrophic health care or other
events, like a car break-down, or extra school expenses and something extra
for retirement.

If you cannot afford health care insurance, you have too new a car and too
big a house and eat out too much and buy designer clothes and a host of
other things that cost money ... it is called "living beyond your means" ...
it is not that complicated to understand.


Why is so important for you to label me? What does that have to do with
the issues?

I do not need to label you,

Then stop bringing it up.


You keep ignoring it.


you just need to acknowledge your label
yourself.

I'm not a socialist, and specifically not with respect to medical care. I
oppose the Canadian view that prohibits any introduction of "second tier"
medicine, although it exists anyway. I want medical insurance to be
provided to all citizens, supported by taxes, and I want private
alternatives available for people who want them and are willing to pay for
them. Systems like that work well. System that rely purely on government
do not, nor do systems that rely too heavily on private enterprise. Its
not about ideology, its about results.


What do people who pay for "private alternatives" get that is not already
provided by the government?

I thought you had "universal health care?" I must have misunderstood.


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