APNewsBreak: A twist in Obama's health care law

Jun 21, 2011 16:46

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.

The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and ( Read more... )

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makemerun June 21 2011, 23:41:48 UTC
Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster says the situation keeps him up at night.




You know what keeps people making 64k or less up at night?

Not knowing how they're going to pay for their health care.

Srsly. WTF.

Some early retirees who worked all their lives may not want to be associated with a health care program for the poor,

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this article, srsly. FFS. Which is worse, the insinuation that poor people don't work or that the downside to this law is that ~good~ people will have to take the dirty poor ppl handouts?

All of this just

What the fuck

Like, LOL I can't even think of the last time I commented here, but I couldn't let this shit slide. What the fuck.









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roseofjuly June 22 2011, 04:26:19 UTC
All of this

Like the perception of being ~poor~ is worse than soul-crushing debt due to a medical emergency.

Most of the retired people I know who worked all their lives would gratefully take the money and not give a shit.

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