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Your currency losing value is not the same as someone else's life circumstances improving. This program is about compensating landlords who were forced to prov
by jude- 5y ago
Your currency losing value is not the same as someone else's life circumstances improving.
This program is about compensating landlords who were forced to provide housing for free, much like how hospitals get compensated to provide medical care to people who can't pay. I see no complaints about the latter, even though it's the same mechanism as the former.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> This program is about compensating landlords who were forced to provide housing for free, much like how hospitals get compensated to provide medical care to people who can't pay. I see no complaints about the latter, Un, that’s an uncompensated condition of Medicare participation, and there are lots of complaints from hospitals about the lack of compensation, and from small government types about the mandate and its affect on costs for those who can pay, and even the existence of “socialist” Medicare in the first place.
- jude- 5y agoFirst, hospitals do get compensated some by both Medicare insurance and Medicaid; it's just not enough [1]. Second, a growing majority (63% as of 2020) of US adults want there to be at least a public option for healthcare [2]. Do you think hospitals should not be compensated for giving care to people who can't afford to pay? [1] https://www.aha.org/system/files/2018-01/factsheet-hospital-billing-explained-9-2017.pdf https://www.aha.org/system/files/2018-01/factsheet-hospital-... [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...