Seriously. So ignorant. PP—don’t comment on my story if you don’t know the facts. The mom is the primary caregiver. And the dad’s employment couldn’t cover the medical costs in this universe or any other. Hope you never face this type of situation but if you did, you’d realize you were a self righteous, ignorant person. |
Feel free to send a check to Uncle Sam to assuage your guilt. It's an unconditional gift. There are two ways for you to make a contribution to reduce the debt: At Pay.gov, you can contribute online by credit card, debit card, PayPal, checking account, or savings account. You can write a check payable to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and, in the memo section, notate that it's a gift to reduce the debt held by the public. Mail your check to: Attn Dept G Bureau of the Fiscal Service P. O. Box 2188 Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188 |
Maybe it’s your whining and negative attitude that prevents you from keeping a job. |
dp.. if everyone did that, it would work. But, if only a handful do that, it doesn't work. That's why we have required taxes and not just "pay if you want" policies. |
Wow. You are certainly clueless and heartless. A co-worker has a daughter with severe special needs. She has 8 specialists. It's a constant battle to keep her safe and alive. |
The no tax on tips or overtime are both capped and end after 2028. The extra deduction for seniors above the one in 2017 ends around then. The infant accounts require you to pay in after the 1k freebie. So MC and LMC bennies are temporary while billionaire cuts are permanent. |
I work in healthcare policy in a blue state and expect some sort of mandate next year requiring Amazon and Walmart to provide health insurance to employees. It’s shocking how these companies use Medicaid for employees and their dependents. This bill is awful for healthcare as ER costs will go up dramatically as millions lose health insurance from Medicaid and federal subsidies to purchase off the ACA. A massive cost shifting will take place and those with commercial insurance should expect 15-20% annual premium increases for the foreseeable future. |
If it’s a constant battle, is keeping her alive doing more harm than good? |
I have a job and am UHNW, but I have empathy and ability to understand that not everyone is that lucky. Some are dealt a family with major medical issues and it's challenging to manage that. |
Unless we make a new law that prevents people who lack health insurance to use the ER. |
HHI of 400k. Worried about my patients who won’t be able to get the care they deserve. Worried that this will mean more hospital closures. I don’t need the tax cuts. |
+1. Many of the people who would actually suffer in this scenario are Trump voters. If these people die off, I’m better off, and so are all the rest of you who are complaining/virtue signaling right now. |
The bill cuts $1trillion from Medicaid. The cuts go far, far beyond work requirements— those account for about $300 billion of the $1 trillion. Those cuts will harm not just poor people, but deeply affect doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and every other provider who is actually taking care of patients every day. As to work requirements, of course they seem like a good idea. In reality, most people on Medicaid already work. So why the concern, and why the projection that the law will cut $320 billion as a result of the work requirements? Because the administration of those requirements means many people who should qualify don’t. The system goes down during the one day you actually have off to put in your hours. The library is closed the day you have off, and since you are poor, you don’t have a computer, so need to use the library to do it. Your manager decides business is slow, and cuts your hours unexpectedly, and you can’t scramble fast enough to get enough hours to stay qualified that month. You get the flu and stay home from work to avoid infecting colleagues and the public, so your boss fires you, so you lose coverage. You live in a state that decides it wants to make it as hard as possible for you to meet those requirements so sets up new requirements, new forms, new websites, every few months so that you spend more time trying to keep up with the reporting requirements than you spent actually working. There are SO many ways a person working her a$d off, trying very hard to comply, will find herself without coverage. And get sick, so she can’t really work, which makes the problem worse. It’s like an actual death spiral brought about by your seemingly innocuous appeal to “reasonable”. |
You can assuage your guilt over your happiness at the tax cuts by knowing that your job loss is very likely part of the reduction of the DC blob and a great benefit to society. |
We will not be impacted negatively. However, we now live in a terrible society that is inequitable. So, we all are impacted negatively.
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