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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Did you mean Medicaid? There is no income test for Medicare, but there is for 'Caid. It is far from a perfect scheme and don't wish to portray it as such. But it does exist and does help people who qualify. It just doesn't go far enough, and it is expensive the way it's run now, which leads to resistance to expansion.
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the system that serves retirees... isn't that Medicare? I know in every instance the participants were required to spend a great deal of their savings (which was really all they had), before assistance would kick in
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Originally Posted by wodin
I might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I just don’t understand how throwing a trillion dollars down a rabbit hole is supposed to reduce the deficit by a couple hundred billion dollars.
Could someone explain that to me please.
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this is definetly a spendy administration