09-27-2017, 09:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2017, 09:39 AM by David Horn.)
(09-27-2017, 03:05 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: In welfare, there are victims and cheaters. You’d like to think most would agree that both exist. The proper thing to do is help the victims and frustrate the cheaters. Alas, once you buy deeply into one of the two world views, you tend to see either victims or cheaters...
There is a movement afoot to eliminate the status issues entirely. For example, Medicaid provides good care at no cost to the poor (and near poor in expansion states). Individuals just outside the eligibility window may or may not get subsidies (based on expansion or not), but they definitely pay more for care with higher deductibles. This creates resentment for obvious reasons. One solution: allow others to buy into Medicaid. The details are TBD, but the idea has merit, and it's more or less non-partisan.
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