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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:50 PM Original message |
Does this bill help or hurt the poor? |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. We will find out when it gets passed and implemented |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. It expands Medicaid and provides subsidies |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. How is it a distortion to say that it forces someone to buy something? |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Not everyone "poor" qualifies for Medicaid |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. This bill changes that, that's the point of new legislation |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. Helps the poor, hurts the middle class, doesnt affect the rich. - n/t |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Bingo. It's a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy. eom |
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rwheeler31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. It will help many poor people,especially with more clinics; |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Primary health doctors don't just pop up with the dandelions every |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. for the unemployed poor a good thing |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. What do the working poor get now? |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, for example, |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Are you among the working poor? Wouldn't you qualify for a subsidy |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I , for one, am among the working poor as I cannot afford to live in the |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. I guess I am now. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. That's a tough situation. Hope you get some help in this bill--or |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Thanks, I appreciate it, but I'd rather have a public option. Or at least no mandate. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. now- access to clinics (mental health and community health centers) |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. Your friend is correct - |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
12. I've seen several studies that show preventative health care increase lifespan... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. A lot of them will not be able to afford to use the insurance.. |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Those below the poverty line and I think 100% above it will get Medicaid free |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
14. This bill significantly helps the poor by expanding Medicaid |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. It feeds the malignant tumor that drives up health care costs, thereby hurting most everyone except |
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earthboundmisfit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
22. As for the subsidies, have we any idea on how they're to be implemented? |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
23. It helps those in poverty and those 100% above poverty line; However thinking you are poor |
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lorylin (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. Personally, I think it hurts the poor |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
28. Single payer would not pass in this congress. A public option wouldn't even pass. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. So it would be better to be bankrupt from medical bills |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-21-09 11:23 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. So if public schools don't exist at all. |
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