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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (41477)	3/17/2017 7:07:49 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) of 42652

I don't have a quarrel with that requirement, but I'm thinking that in reality that would be very few people. The reason is that Medicaid is so stringent regarding levels of assets. In Arkansas, for example, a qualifying individual can't have more than $2000 in a bank account--or in stocks, bonds, etc. So if someone wasn't working at all, they would have little to subsist with. Even if they had a pile of money under the mattress, that wouldn't likely last long. In fact, one of the things I disagreed with in Obamacare is that it didn't have any restrictions regarding assets. One could have a fat brokerage account or substantial landholdings and still get a subsidy as long as one's income (per tax return) was low enough. It looks like that will still be the case with the Ryan plan.

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