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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:32 PM Original message |
So how will this new proposed health care plan help the unemployed? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. I believe that there will be subsidies on a sliding scale for those with low income..... |
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Birthmark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. It works like this... |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. You'd be into Medicaid... |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I'd be interested in knowing what the nat'l threshold for Medicaid would be. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. That's only right, since Medicaid gets cut and cut and cut. People making a lot less than that |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. But at $880 a month I shouldn't have? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. Is that what you heard??? You want justice, too? |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Does lobbying for single payer universal coverage for all count? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Of course it counts. It's laudable. I hope you can also respect , honor what I do for homelessness |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. You started off by flaming me |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Obviously, you're just not going to get it, and I'm very tired of your crap. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #42 |
45. You have yet to demonstrate how anything I said |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 02:17 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Take your hatred of poor folk and STFU yourself. Yes, you told me to STFU, and I'm putting it right |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Still waiting for some substantiation of my alleged hatred of the poor. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. Oh BTW, bobbolink |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 07:51 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. What we have to do is STOP fighting among various groups. We're playing right into the hands of the |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. 133% of the poverty line -- or $1150/mo... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. 133% of FPL. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Oh great! $902 a month. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:47 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Sorry, my post was misleading. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. You're forgetting one teeeeny little thing.... Medicaid will be CUT! |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Yeah, fuck those unemployed losers. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. You're absolutely right.... It's my JOB to lose what little health care i have now so they can have |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Sorry, I was too busy being scorned b/c I couldn't afford insurance and didn't qualify for Medicaid. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 07:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. No, you're too busy pitting one group against another. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 08:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. "Scorned"? That sounds so much like today's Christians complaining that they are persecuted. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Um, have you been paying attention to the health care debate at all? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 09:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #43 |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:07 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. so "i got mine, screw the unemployed". is that what you are saying??? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Yes, you quoted me exactly, didn't you? Word for word, right? |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. no, i was paraphrasing. the result is the same... |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. "so some unemployed person can come in and get MORE BENEFITS"? |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:48 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Oh yes. Or else you are a deadbeat and a criminal. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. You got EXACTLY what I'm saying, don't you? |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Whom am I vilifying? |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. you will now have to sell off your life's savings in order to purchase |
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nightrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. that's about right... all to preserve the health insurance extortion corporations! |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:03 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. And, if you don't, you're a criminal. n/t |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
31. Well, there definitely are criminals involved here |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. Who knows? It hasn't even come out of committee yet... and then there's reconciliation |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. No they won't, and they are already terrible. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. self delete |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
26. I am concerned that there will be a gap |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I was in the same situation. |
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IrishBuckeye (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 08:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. Your income is too high to qualify but you're unemployed? Huh? |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Unemployment benefits. eom |
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Ms. Toad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
41. They will be first in line if they are still unemployed in 2013, n/t |
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PretzelWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
44. you sound like Freaking Colonel Jessup. |
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