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Medicaid is pretty complex and runs afoul of you accidentally having too much income or assets despite being functionally low income. When used car prices start
by spamizbad 3y ago
Medicaid is pretty complex and runs afoul of you accidentally having too much income or assets despite being functionally low income. When used car prices started trending upward during the pandemic people actually got kicked off medicaid rolls because their vehicle was now too valuable of an asset to make them eligible for benefits.
Means-testing is just a very inefficient, clumsy way of providing benefits to people and functionally operates as a tax on those who would benefit from the service but would fail the test.
- gorjusborg 3y agoI've never understood how the right-wing thinks that having a government agency work to determine if people are 'poor enough' to 'earn the right' to have healthcare provided is an efficient use of resources. Seems backwards to me. If we want people to be able to work, basic health is a requirement.
- Alpha3031 3y agoA cynic would say that the right-wing isn't about efficient use of resources, it's about a justice where some people deserve to be kept trodden down even if it costs more to do so.