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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a physician and would have blown this entire account on partying in college.[/quote]

Ok.  But how do you think your Medicaid patients would have spent it? [/quote]

I work in Medicaid case management and love my patients and my job.  I spend my days connecting people with resources (which are many in this city including free childcare for everyone under a certain income).

But 95% of them would blow through a 50K one time payment within a few months.  
5-10% would probably use it for long term goals and/or education.

I honestly think this would be worth it---we could change the trajectory of 5-10% at the cost of losing 90% of the money.

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I have two particular concerns about reparations of this kind. How do we tell millions of poor whites and Hispanics that they aren't getting $50k while their black neighbors are getting it. It's one thing for moralizing UMC do-gooders to talk casually about giving free money to blacks because you're already comfortably off. But try saying that to poor white people who don't have any money at all, and there's plenty of them. It's an extremely divisive thing to do.

My second concern is then what? After the 95% have blown through the money one way or another, [i]then what[/i]? Have we solved the problem?

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