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Mar. 21st, 2010 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkI have a question for those of you who follow politics (which I do not, anymore). I was reading the summary of what's in the health care bill on electoral-vote.com, and these are the first two points:
# Everyone will be required to have health insurance or pay a fine
# People who cannot afford insurance will get it for free (Medicaid) or get a subsidy
What's the threshold for "cannot afford insurance"? Because as we poor people know, often you can't realistically afford something, but the government programs for it require you to have a lower income to qualify. Too rich for food stamps, too poor for food, as it were. How is this plan going to guarantee that doesn't happen to people AND charge them a fine for not being poor enough?
(Should go without saying -- if anyone comments who disagrees with you about the bill, don't be mean to that person in my LJ.)
# Everyone will be required to have health insurance or pay a fine
# People who cannot afford insurance will get it for free (Medicaid) or get a subsidy
What's the threshold for "cannot afford insurance"? Because as we poor people know, often you can't realistically afford something, but the government programs for it require you to have a lower income to qualify. Too rich for food stamps, too poor for food, as it were. How is this plan going to guarantee that doesn't happen to people AND charge them a fine for not being poor enough?
(Should go without saying -- if anyone comments who disagrees with you about the bill, don't be mean to that person in my LJ.)
