Tag: Medicaid
Posted on Wed Nov 23, 2011 at 08:09:54 AM EST
Tags: 2012 Election, Medicare, Medicaid, Barack Obama, Social Security (all tags)
It is not Obama's fault that even though he promised transparency there are still some people who are still unable to see through him.
Obama is not incompetent, nor is he stupid. He has a history of setting very high goals for himself and of achieving the goals he sets out to achieve.
He made it to President, after all. Incompetent and/or stupid people do not become President.
If he keeps on getting the kinds of results he keeps on getting, it's because those are the results he was aiming for.
Everything he's `accomplishing' he's accomplishing on purpose, because it's what he sets out to accomplish.
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Posted on Fri Sep 17, 2010 at 01:01:08 PM EST
Tags: Medicaid (all tags)
"Okay," says the chief, "Death! But first... bongo!"
I remembered this old joke when the Census Bureau reported that now more Americans than ever before have no healthcare insurance.
Official estimates by the Census Bureau showing a dramatic spike of 4.3 million in the number of Americans without health insurance in 2009 - to a record 50.7 million.
And...
The jump of 4.3 million uninsured is the largest one-year increase on record and would have been much higher - over 10 million - had there not been a huge expansion of public coverage, primarily Medicaid, to an additional 5.8 million people.
And that is the real bipartisan plan for single-payer healthcare, as more of more of us lose our jobs and houses and sink below the income threshold for Medicaid, and eventually only a thin upper crust remains dependent on private health insurance, which they can easily afford, because they own everything!
"But at least we have Medicaid!" say the millions of formerly middle-class Americans. "Okay," say the chiefs, "And now we cut Medicaid!"
Bongo!
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