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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (130130)2/4/2010 5:14:27 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 542010
 
I wasn't suggesting that. I had in mind subsidizing the medical costs

The extraordinary/catastrophic costs would be covered, as for the ordinary costs, I don't see a big difference between subsidizing them and just giving the person a more direct handout, except that the later gives the recipient more flexibility, and more incentive to try to control the ordinary costs.

Social Security disability includes Medicare

If you get Social Security Disability, you are eligible for Medicare, but it doesn't actually include it, two different programs. I'm talking about the disability payments alone. Those payments aren't health insurance. Presumably you could make the health insurance part more generous and pare down the direct disability payments, but why? If anything I'd want to go in the other direction.
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