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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (984893)12/1/2016 11:50:08 AM
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No. Not health insurance.

Welfare benefits. The reduction in the number of "uncovered" persons is wholly a result of the Medicaid expansion. There is no substantial increase in the number of insured persons. It will take away the need for subsidies which resulted from higher prices.

The entire problem here is that people got a massive multi-trillion dollar Medicaid expansion that they didn't know was happening and they didn't want. The middle class did not AGREE to pay for health insurance for those 140% over the poverty level, and neither did they AGREE to subsidize insurance policies for a family of four making $100,000/year.

It was just a bad idea from top to bottom, structured totally around "getting it done" without consideration of what the "it" was. Predictably, a disaster, and it turned out to be worse than predicted.

I'm glad it is going to come to an end.
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