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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (68081)4/23/2018 4:22:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 362508
 
People getting health care != a huge and rapidly growing federal program to pay for health care, much less one increasing as fast as its projected to grow.

The first thing might be affordable, the 2nd possibly, the third isn't.

As for being a pragmatist I don't think that in this context such a label can reasonably be applied to anyone who doesn't think a very reign in of future entitlement spending growth is vital.

That people were required to have health insurance under Obamacare made it much less of an entitlement than letting people have no mandate and still get care.

That people were legally entitled to subsidies for that health insurance makes it an entitlement. That Medicaid was expanded means its not just a new entitlement but an increase in one of the old ones.

 Is it an entitlement when people with no health care show up at the emergency room?

Obamacare doesn't seem to have done anything to decrease that. Emergency room care went up.
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