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NY in Medi-$hambles
New York Post ^
| May 29, 2013
| Michael Goodwin
Posted on 05/29/2013 5:27:48 PM PDT by PMAS
Theres often magic and meaning in round numbers: The Dow index passes 15,000, a baseball player hits .300, crime falls to 50-year lows.
Heres a milestone that tells a different kind of story: The number of people on Medicaid in New York City has passed 3 million. As records go, this one carries a dubious distinction and a red alert about the future.
The rise in enrollment, from 2.5 million in 2005, to 2.9 million in 2011, to 3.1 million today, adds another headache for the next mayor. In a city of 8.3 million people, that over 37 percent get health insurance under a poverty program shows both the decline of the middle class and the vast expansion of government benefits.
With ObamaCare expected to add hundreds of thousands more people to subsidized-insurance rolls, it is obvious that the current course is unsustainable. Less obvious is what to do about it.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; medicaid; newyork; newyorkcity; obamacare; zerocare
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:27:48 PM PDT
by
PMAS
To: PMAS
Property taxes are already at insane levels ($20,000/year on a small nothing house in Queens). Add in the state income tax (7% under $200,000), NYC income tax (3.5%) and sales tax at almost 9%.
The Free Sh*t Army votes and wants their government cheese.
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:42:41 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
Fix it? Until city pensions are cut, there is nothing that can be done.
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:45:08 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
To: PMAS
Wow NYC has almost as many peeps on Medicaid as the whole state of Texas.
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:49:26 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: PMAS
All according to the plan.
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:52:53 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
To: nascarnation
37% of the residents on Medicaid, just unbelievable
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:52:57 PM PDT
by
PMAS
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
To: 2banana
You are right, taxes are out of control and so are the pensions
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posted on
05/29/2013 5:54:48 PM PDT
by
PMAS
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
To: PMAS
SECESSION!
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posted on
05/29/2013 6:26:17 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: Gay State Conservative
I left the state in 1981...best thing I ever did...Born in Schenectady... it is looking more and more like Detroit....the only way out is to leave... It has only gotten worse in 45 years..I would tell my children to leave
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posted on
05/29/2013 6:57:58 PM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks PMAS. One of the paid ads on YouTube today (I put on music while I work) was some of Holder's people claiming that "the new health care law" cracks down on Medicare fraud -- which is just a method of A) creating a straw man argument in favor of Zerocare, and B) another way to spin Death Panels.
The number of people on Medicaid in New York City has passed 3 million... In a city of 8.3 million people, that over 37 percent get health insurance under a poverty program shows both the decline of the middle class and the vast expansion of government benefits.
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posted on
05/29/2013 7:17:21 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: 2banana
($20,000/year on a small nothing house in Queens). I gotta chuckle a little when I see stuff like this. I own a nice house in "fly over country" and taxes around $800 per year.
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posted on
05/30/2013 5:09:00 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
To: SunkenCiv
The number of people on Medicaid in New York City has passed 3 million... In a city of 8.3 million people, that over 37 percent get health insurance under a poverty program shows both the decline of the middle class and the vast expansion of government benefits. Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
05/30/2013 6:08:56 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Swedes bring their cars..savages their flames..burning cars a metaphor. D. Greenfield)
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