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[sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>]

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