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Buck stupidity is not only frustrating, it is cruel:
In 2015, in Colorado, 77 % of Medicaid recipients had at least one full-time worker in the household. Kaiser Family Foundation figures (sorry don't know how to link). When these people are dumped off of Medicaid, incentivized or not, they cannot magically create jobs with heath insurance benefits for themselves and their families. And there is no evidence that the millionaires and billionaires are simply waiting for their next tax break to create such jobs. I do not say this to demonize Phil Anschutz, Charlie Ergen, John Malone, James Leprino, Pat Stryker, or Gary Magness. On the contrary, they are very good at running their respective businesses and making money. If they thought that they could make more by increases the number of high paying jobs, with health insurance for low-skilled employees, they would have already done so. Giving these billionaires a few extra hundreds of millions in tax breaks is not going to incentivize them to create these jobs.
These newly uninsured will either forgo medical care completely resulting in suffering and death (Buck is such a Christian), or they will seek medical care from emergency rooms and other, less than efficient venues. You cannot get blood (or cash) from a turnip, so the costs associated with their care will be redistributed amongst the rest of us in the form of higher premiums and higher costs for care. It is very regressive and very inefficient but is it what the market demands.
Distribution of the Nonelderly with Medicaid by Family Work Status
77% of CO recipients have at least one full time worker in the family, 8% part-time, and 15% none. It’s important to note that these figures are for non-elderly folks, and, therefore, don’t include the 60% of folks in Colorado nursing homes that get benefits under the program.
You can find some summary information about spending by county here.
Buck's comment about the need to reduce the deficit is correct. I can buy into his argument for reduction of Medicaid rolls if he in turn would call for an audit of our dear friends in the Pentagon instead of blindly accepting Trump's call for more defense spending. If Buck needs better understanding of the Pentagon situation, he can chat with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who has been calling for an audit of the Defense Department for some years.
Recent news, that some may have missed, is that the Army can't account for about a billion dollars of equipment in Iraq. As the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) once said: "a billion here, a billion there; pretty soon, you're talking about real money."
What about a guarantee of a job? Otherwise, to expect people to work when there is no work, and to punish them for not working, or to expect them to work at a Wal-mart type job without making sure that there is healthcare available to them, is, what, not very Christian even though Kenny boy claims to be one in his bio :" Ken is a Christian and a leader in his profession and community. Ken has volunteered and served on the boards of many important community groups. As District Attorney, Ken brought together community leaders to create the Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC). The Center has helped more than two thousand kids and their families get back on the right path in life. "
Gag me with a spoon
Arbeit macht frei. Give the "deserving" poor a bare minimum of help, hard to win and harder to keep, and let the undeserving wither and die.
I knew some nut would bring up the Nazis eventually. You lose the argument.
And you lost your mind Moldy.
Now get me my ACA article, my Russia Article and all the other shit you owe me.
Although the Nazis co-opted the phrase, it originally comes from a story by Lorenz Diefenbach which talks about an itinerant gambler and scoundrel who finds redemption through more traditional employment. I'm not making the Nazi comparison, not least because many on the American left hold the same ideas as Buck with regard to "welfare for the deserving," but it's interesting that you're so ready to.
Pro-life until they're out of the womb, then devil take the hindmost.
The common thread is that if you didn't choose to become pregnant, or choose to become poor, in Moldy's world view: "Tough luck – we own you so we'll decide your fate for you"