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  • From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tell me again why Republicans are good for people
  • Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:40:29 -0500

bob ford wrote:
..........The poor have no assets to take, and , for now, the gov't picks up
the bill.

Just the other day I read an article about the numbers, and the most specifically horrifying thing I remember is that in many states, the number of people on their state (mostly that amounts to Medicaid) rolls who were qualified because previous medical bills had bankrupted them....

This guy's thrust was that those people should be ineligible for Medicaid, and I failed to grasp, still do, the reasoning behind that. The thing that occurred to me is that intervention needs to happen way before they reach that point, so they can still be responsible for themselves, but I really sort of forgot about it, guess I wasn't in a mood to get all het up about something I had to think so much about or something, now I can't remember where I read it. Don't put my hand on it here, but seems like I was somewhere else when I read it anyway.

But it's scary to think that we can be bankrupted by a system over which we have little control, then left in the cold.....

I've no clue what all the answer entails, but I know it is both huge and urgent.

SJ




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