Atlas Puked...
Temporary....snort, yeah good one, riiiight......
Pretty soon it will pay more to be unemployed than employed.
Then they need a ‘temporary’ tax to fund it, rinse, repeat.
“This is as urgent as it gets,” said Representative Anna G. Eshoo, Democrat of California.”
Yet another “crisis” to ram through bad legislation and hook the public and states on the Federal drug of money.
Republicans wanted to deny the premium subsidies to people who had annual incomes of more than $100,000 or assets of more than $1 million. They also wanted to prevent people with more than $1 million of family income from taking advantage of the Medicaid option for the unemployed.
Democrats voted down those proposals in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Representative Nathan Deal, Republican of Georgia, said “the poorest of the poor” had long been subject to income and asset tests when applying for Medicaid. But, Mr. Deal argued, under the new option, a millionaire could get Medicaid benefits, financed entirely by the federal government, without being asked about such matters.
Unbelievable!!!!
How about cable TV and broadband internet for workers laid off ?
Atlas Puked...Most “regular” people will be fairly appalled by the state of public healthcare. The lines and waits for care are amazing in most facilities. The poor folks there have learned to live with it, and often brag of the “free” medicines, etc.
However, regular, unemployed folks may take the wrong lessons their peek at the inside of the public system.
The reason the lines are long are NOT because of a lack of funding. It’s because “free” public care is ALWAYS this way, everywhere in the world.