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I don't know the numbers? I just posted the numbers. 50% of babies being born on Medicaid. What more numbers would you like? To break it down, one-fifth of our population are creating more than half of the babies. So what do those numbers tell me? It tells me that lowlifes are having children at a much higher rate than productive middle-class people. It also tells me they could care less about how many children they have because they don't have to worry about supporting them. Pass that bill onto the working people who are limiting their family size according to their income.
And to think prior to the 1960s, Medicaid did not exist, yet lots of babies were born. I would guess LWNJs think all poor babies died before the invention of Medicaid.
I don't know the numbers? I just posted the numbers. 50% of babies being born on Medicaid. What more numbers would you like? To break it down, one-fifth of our population are creating more than half of the babies. So what do those numbers tell me? It tells me that lowlifes are having children at a much higher rate than productive middle-class people. It also tells me they could care less about how many children they have because they don't have to worry about supporting them. Pass that bill onto the working people who are limiting their family size according to their income.
again, you are working on the assumption that people on medicaid aren't productive because they can't get health insurance through their employers.
By your own standard, YOU AREN'T productive because your employer doesn't pay for your insurance.
Fact is, most people on medicaid have jobs.
19% of the Medicaid budget went to 11 million adults in 2015 that became eligible under the ACA expansion. 66% percent are working poor and 12% are looking for work for a combined total of 78% working or willing to work. Let's just say that leaves roughly 2.5 million adults on Medicaid that do not work for some reason.
And 33% goes to the disabled. 21% goes to the elderly. 4.2% goes to non-working poor. 14.8% goes to the working poor.
33% of the Medicaid budget goes to people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
And 21% goes to the elderly.
Ray From Cleveland, post: 17804094When you tell me that I have to get up for work everyday to support my next door neighbors because they don't feel like working, I'm sorry, but that's servitude.
One third of the Medicaid budget goes to people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
. Medicaid spends almost $200 billion a year caring for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. That's about one-third of its budget, even though, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, only about 13 percent of those enrolled in Medicaid are disabled.
From Birth To Death, Medicaid Affects The Lives Of Millions
Do you agree that this service to disabled people and their families is a commitment that the Federal Government should provide? Do you consider yourself enslaved because a portion of your tax payments help fund it?
My first "real job" was working as a bank teller for $50.00 a week. It was enough to rent a tiny furnished apartment with 2 friends. I did not own a car, but I was able to save $18.00 a month, which I later used as a down payment on my first house 5 years later. I was still working for the bank, but in a larger branch, supervising the tellers and machine operators.
I worked for the bank for 9 years and was a manager when I left - one of the first female bank managers. I was making $18,500.
A living wage would be one which allows an individual to support themselves in a modest way, without government assistance.
I know of no country other than the US which subsidizes large corporations by providing welfare to full time workers.
And yet the idiot American right wing continues to vilify the workers, and praise the profitability of the corporations screwing them over. It's total insanity.
American conservative right wing voters have to be the most gullible fools on the planet.
Contraceptives in the water supply.
I have looked at the numbers. It's 1% of the population which hardcore refuses to work.
But you continue to see the working poor as the problem instead of the corporate elite which chooses to underpay their workers, while booking record profits and paying 8 figure executive salaries.
If you were scientific person you would dive into all the numbers before reaching such a biased conclusion.
Just watched "The Big Short". Talk about irresponsible people.
Ah, but we must blame whatever irresponsible fraudulent financial mess the money-changers make on poor people and immigrants.
So are you just talking about Commie Care or all Medicaid? You're trying to water down the point.
You should do some actual, unbiased research into the cause of the mortgage/financial/housing meltdown.
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Markets: Quietly and separately, all these men spot that there is a problem with mortgage securities, particularly those resting on the unfettered inflation of the risky subprime market. The film is accurate about the historical trajectory of events. It is true that an astonishing number of people, including the chairman of the Federal Reserve himself, continued to ignore the housing market bubble and even to deny it could happen – though, as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Laureate Paul Krugman has pointed out in his review, more people noticed there was a problem than the tiny group who are shown here. Another economist, Jeffrey A Tucker, has argued that The Big Short is “incomplete” without reference to the actions of the Federal Reserve itself. He directs viewers looking for an accurate account of the causes of the crash to Margin Call.
Ray From Cleveland, post: 17833307So are you just talking about Commie Care or all Medicaid? You're trying to water down the point.
Why did you start this thread if you cannot respond to questions that define your position.
I'll try again:
Do you agree that Medicaid service to the disabled, working poor and elderly and their families is a commitment that the Federal Government should provide? Do you consider yourself enslaved because a portion of your tax payments help fund it?
Ah yes, demanding an answer to your one question and avoiding the rest of the post.
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When Nickerson, 85, realized a nursing home bed was too expensive, he sought guidance from an attorney, who helped him take his wife’s name off their home and take their assets out of her name. Then Nickerson applied for her to receive Medi-Cal, and he helped her move into a Turlock nursing home near the one where she once worked.
Now, Nickerson said he pays about $1,700 a month from her Social Security, and Medi-Cal picks up the rest of the tab, he said. Nickerson said his wife, now 84, is getting the care she needs, and he can’t imagine having her anywhere else.
“It is absolutely the best place for her,” he said. “She needs help 24 hours a day.”
So thank you for your help on this topic. It is much worse than we thought. It's probably about one-sixth or one-seventh of our population making 50% of those babies.
And you know something? I never had children either. I didn't want the expense.
Ah yes, demanding an answer to your one question and avoiding the rest of the post.
Of course I don't mind supporting those who are truly disabled. Who would? What I do object to is one-sixth of our population having 50% of the kids they can't afford to have and passing the bill to the working. I object to the non-working having more liberties and a larger family than the working can have.
The typical case is poor people having children knowing they can't afford them, but have them anyhow because we working people will have to support them.
. Currently, more than half the states cover children with family income up to at least 250% FPL (about $50,000 for a family of three.)7
Ah yes, demanding an answer to your one question and avoiding the rest of the post.
Of course I don't mind supporting those who are truly disabled. Who would? What I do object to is one-sixth of our population having 50% of the kids they can't afford to have and passing the bill to the working. I object to the non-working having more liberties and a larger family than the working can have.
Nobody ever said on their deathbed, "I wish I spent more time at the office".
So your objection is that some people are putting family ahead of career by not whoring themselves out to jobs to get health insurance?
