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AP Exclusive: Medicaid for the middle class?
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Posted on 06/21/2011 3:28:55 PM PDT by SPI-Man

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press – 8 mins ago

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 still get Medicaid, said officials who make long-range cost estimates for the Health and Human Services department.

(Excerpt) Read more at us.rd.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; entitlement; fedsown55percent; forclosedhomes; foreclosedhomes; loophole; medicaid; middleclass; obamacare; spending; welfare
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A "Glitch"? A glitch is an intermittant radio in VFR conditions. This is more like loss of all electrical in solid VFR.
1 posted on 06/21/2011 3:28:56 PM PDT by SPI-Man
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To: SPI-Man

Opps! I meant solid IFR


2 posted on 06/21/2011 3:29:39 PM PDT by SPI-Man (Getting dangerously close to being too old to cut the mustard anymore)
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To: SPI-Man

Opps! I meant solid IFR


3 posted on 06/21/2011 3:29:49 PM PDT by SPI-Man (Getting dangerously close to being too old to cut the mustard anymore)
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WOW, AT MY FAMILY’S INCOME I COULD GET MEDICAID?

No, thanks, I have A JOB and PRIDE.


4 posted on 06/21/2011 3:30:47 PM PDT by struggle
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To: SPI-Man

The words “national bankruptcy” come to mind....


5 posted on 06/21/2011 3:36:34 PM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: SPI-Man

This is even funnier than shovel ready. The adjustment in State tax rates to pay for this would mean that your state taxes will have to exceed your income. Only people on the government payroll could dream this up.


6 posted on 06/21/2011 3:48:17 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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We’re so screwed.


7 posted on 06/21/2011 3:48:34 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: SPI-Man

We must drive a stake through this thing. Got Tea Party?


8 posted on 06/21/2011 3:50:36 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster says the situation keeps him up at night.

"I don't generally comment on the pros or cons of policy, but that just doesn't make sense," Foster said during a question-and-answer session at a recent professional society meeting.

"This is a situation that got no attention at all," added Foster. "And even now, as I raise the issue with various policymakers, people are not rushing to say ... we need to do something about this."

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"The fact that this is being discovered now tells you, what else is baked into this law?" said Leavitt [Utah Governor], who served as Health and Human Services secretary under President George H.W. Bush. "It clearly begins to reveal that the nature of the law was to put more and more people under eligibility for government insurance."

They had to sign it to find out what was in it, but they still haven't gotten around to reading it. Many surprises ahead.

9 posted on 06/21/2011 3:50:46 PM PDT by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: SPI-Man

What doubly sucks is the first person that even suggests that this madness should be undone will be thoroughly demonized for “trying to roll back and cut Medicare”.

The only positive I see with this is how it will hasten the inevitable crash of the Ponzi scheme. Just give Medicare and Socialist Security to EVERYONE and be done with it!


10 posted on 06/21/2011 3:55:01 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: SPI-Man

I’ve been waiting for this.

The government can’t truly rule us until they control our access to medical care and our access to food.

At that point you’ll bend down to lick their boot. Oh, you could put up a fight. In which case they will make your life a living hell, perhaps even kill you.

The revolution, what ever form it’s gonna take, can’t start soon enough for me.


11 posted on 06/21/2011 4:21:39 PM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: SPI-Man

If only the media spent 10% of the effort they did on Sarah Palin’s emails to the Obamacare disaster......

Anyone who thinks this medicaid for the middle class was an accident is an utter fool.


12 posted on 06/21/2011 4:52:29 PM PDT by Grunthor
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To: SPI-Man
Let me know when we can just quit working and tour the world on someone elses nickel, THEN we will cooking with PAM!

It's not so bad living in the USA.....until we run out of other peoples money.

13 posted on 06/21/2011 5:04:11 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SPI-Man

Pelosi Orgasm.

14 posted on 06/21/2011 6:04:31 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks SPI-Man.
[Zerocare] 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.
Zero had to sign it to see what was in it.


15 posted on 06/21/2011 6:09:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: EGPWS
It's not so bad living in the USA.....until we run out of other peoples money.

Wait, what? That train already left the station... right after the TSA finished it's cavity searches.

But what the hell... we all get free stuff! Hey, it's just government money. Free stuff! Not like those nasty Republicans who wanna put gramma on an ice floe.

Line up here, there will be soap and fresh towels in the showers.

16 posted on 06/21/2011 6:11:44 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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To: SPI-Man
A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid

Well, that's nice. I make considerably less than that, and I get to subsidize them. Sounds fair. /heavy sarcasm

And we're only finding this out NOW??? A YEAR AND A HALF LATER??? I'm so glad the news media had all that free time to scrutinize Governor Palin's emails.

17 posted on 06/21/2011 6:12:31 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: SPI-Man

The failing Republic, when the majority start to vote themselves largess from the public trust.... So there go the Rats bribing the ignorant and uneducated public with their own tax dollars.

This is completely and utterly unethical but goes largely un-commented on by the Socialist main stream press.

Democrats and their social reparation funds have destroyed this once great nation. It should be made a crime to bribe the electorate with unfunded, unpaid for entitlement liabilities.


18 posted on 06/21/2011 6:17:29 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Ask a liberal to explain how tax increases create jobs in America)
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To: SPI-Man

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19 posted on 06/21/2011 6:24:54 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Forget AMEX. Remember your Glock 27: Never Leave Home Without It!)
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To: SPI-Man

hello fellow pilot...


20 posted on 06/21/2011 6:25:46 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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