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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4874)	2/25/2008 1:09:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

You can't add Buffet because he paid taxes. But yes you can add millionaires if they paid no taxes. Of course if they had a large amount of taxable income, then they where obligated to pay taxes. Some of them might have committed tax fraud, others might be living off accumulated wealth without having much income (or with their income coming from tax free bonds) They would probably all be paying for their own medical care, except perhaps the tax frauds who are also Medicaid fraudsters, or who are old enough to receive Medicare, and if they are really millionaires I'm not sure they would want to put up with medicaid, unless they are misers to the extent of being similar to this person en.wikipedia.org - So even the tax fraudsters, while a free rider in other senses of the term might not be a free rider in this context. Every governor in the country is pissed at the Bush plans to cut Medicaid payments to the states. Medicaid payments go up every year. I think you mean something more like "Bush's plans to reduce the increase of Medicaid payments", they wouldn't actually be cut in nominal terms and likely not in real terms.

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