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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, why don't you ask for more help for the middle class rather than trying to take away the crumbs that the poor get?  If you force a family living in poverty, a family that is living from penny to penny, to give up their grocery/electricity bill/rent money to pay your $8/month income tax, your $10/visit doctor fee and your $100/year health insurance is that going to alleviate your $20,000/year health care burden?

Or is it all about making you feel better knowing that others are suffering worse?

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OP is one who somehow believes that if you play him in monopoly and he starts with all the properties except Mediterranean Ave and all the money and you lose it's not because OP started with so much it's because you're lazy and stupid. [/quote]

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Data from federalsafetynet.com (may be verified from public records, U.S. Census, federal spending breakdowns.). Spending on social benefits has not changed poverty, it has only made being poor more tolerable.

An small story:  I had a similar experience where a crown on my tooth failed and I was advised to get an implant to replace it at a cost of about $15,000.  I have to defer the work until I save (probably two years) because of the expense.  Yet the next patient, who was Medicaid, was advised to get implants instead because it would all be paid for by his Medicaid plan which he immediately agreed to. If he had to pay out of pocket like me, maybe his decision would be different like the choice I was forced to make.

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Yes, exactly....that's my point. (I'm the one who can't afford the twice weekly PT due to the expense, and have to shortchange my odds of recovery....and yet the Medicaid patient gets better care, paid for by taxpayers like me.) I can't understand how people cannot see the inequity in a system where taxpayers must come up with high monthly insurance premiums that do not provide coverage until a ridiculous deductible is met and must therefore sacrifice care  - while at the same time a Medicaid patient enjoys a superior level of care that someone else's money can buy. Shouldn't a middle-class taxpayer get the same level of care as the poor person?

Someone upthread seemed sympathetic to the situation, but the solution was....why not ask for more help for the middle class? While well-intentioned, that is the liberal solution to everything - just give more help out. But I always come back to the same question: where is the money going to come from? [/quote]

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