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LA Tax question and healthcare for the poor
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:27 am
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:27 am
Ok, so the dog whistle has been blown. Many health programs for the poor will have to be cut.
Question: How much more should the tax paying citizenry be obligated to pay for the poor’s health coverage? What is the moral obligation here? Personally I feel we are taxed enough and my moral obligation has been met. I don’t feel sympathy for these people beyond what is already taken out of my paycheck. My health insurance costs for me and my family keeps going up, with no one supplementing the difference. So why should we have to dig in our pockets more to now cover the increase in costs for these health programs for the poor? Perhaps the poor should cut back on the procreation and live within their means.
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Question: How much more should the tax paying citizenry be obligated to pay for the poor’s health coverage? What is the moral obligation here? Personally I feel we are taxed enough and my moral obligation has been met. I don’t feel sympathy for these people beyond what is already taken out of my paycheck. My health insurance costs for me and my family keeps going up, with no one supplementing the difference. So why should we have to dig in our pockets more to now cover the increase in costs for these health programs for the poor? Perhaps the poor should cut back on the procreation and live within their means.
The Advocate LINK
This post was edited on 1/22/18 at 11:29 am
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Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:29 am to Covingtontiger77
Medicaid (i believe this does not even include CHIP) is over a quarter of our budget and increasing...every....year
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:30 am to SlowFlowPro
Thank goodness we expanded it during the dead middle of the budget crisis.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:44 am to Covingtontiger77
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a spending plan that would end many of Louisiana's safety-net health programs and strip 80 percent of the financing for the beloved TOPS program that helps students pay for college.
Just how the hell many do we have and how many do we actually need? There's LaChip for kids, Medicaid for kids and adults. I don't even understand why we need both of those. There are free or reduced fee clinics all over the state, 10 in Baton Rouge alone. There's Planned Parenthood/women's care, Council on Aging, SSI, SS disability. There's overlap all over the place.
As for TOPS, a good chunk of $ needed could be had by requiring repayment by kids who flunk out or drop out (unless due to health concerns) by year 2.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:53 am to TigerTattle
We have Obamacare
Medicaid Expansion
A public hospital system
How much of this is overlap?
Medicaid Expansion
A public hospital system
How much of this is overlap?
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