Posted on 02/28/2005 4:26:16 PM PST by Graybeard58
I still want a free pony.
This will just hasten the bankruptcy of Medicare.
The colony could purchase insurance, like the rest of us.
Surprising to find this among the Hutterites.
This is a program that seriously needs reform. There are newborns born premature (because of Moms on drugs) who are severly disabled, those cases alone cost medicaid $100K to $500K first few months of their lives.
And "they" can leave that way. Welcome to the consequences of free choice.
40 grand makes a person ineligible for medicaid I do believe.
They seem to barter and the worth of their work isn't income. I don't know about tax issues but I do know that medicaid won't let you keep a nest egg and get benefits. You have to spend down your money.
Interesting, it was all women who sued and hide behind their husbands. And the story of not having money for groceries,,is that something they think most people who work don't face at times. This is a ploy to "not have anything to do with the government" and get aid at the same time.
The Hutterites are a bit repressive. And they, like certain groups like getting things they did not pay for.
Interesting thought.
If you willingly decide not to work for wages or money, if you scorn that and live communally, should you get the benefits that "poor" get. Now we can argue all day long if the poor act like they can't get a job or not. But these people admit it, are proud of it, can work and do work, just not for money. Should they get the benefit of the deserving poor when they are penniless by choice.
Fascinating! Considering that the group's assets are in farmland/real estate so they can be largely self-sustaining...these women probably could argue that if Mexican women can enfranchise themselves here by childbirth, why could not American citizens obtain the same level of medical services as the illegals who come here for childbirth anchoring? (BTW I'm not condoning this)
And recalling Waco! -- will some activist Judge lay the groundwork for IRS or other seizure of private property, for eminent domain or medical bill lien/levy/reimbursements? (I'm DEFINITELY not condoning this.)
Much to ponder here.
Well, now maybe if they get bill, they can do what the rest of us do about bills. Somebody on the commune can hitail it into town and get a job to pay it off, or they can sell some of their veggies, or take in ironing.
Amazing, people do make money to pay bills.
medical bills go to collection every day and liens are placed on property when bills aren't paid. do you object to bills being collected?
Govt. Bills being paid.....
Legitimate Govt. debts should be paid. By everyone, including illegals. Due process is mandatory.
I do not want to encourage any "abolish the IRS, it's illegal" posts here. Just to say yes, the government should collect.
But without tanks under Kammandantur Janet Reno-Clinton
I never heard of the government collecting a bill with tanks. And Reno wasn't collecting bills at Waco.
Didn't say that was the case. But it was a religious group, on a private communal site. Those are the parallels I was drawing.
I regard a context of aggressive conversion of land to ecological reserves, state parks, Clinton's conversion of federal parks to UN sites and recent escalation in eminent domain activism by government against private propertyholders relevant here as well. You may not. That's OK.
It sounds like 6 out of 7 of these women are from the same family. That's hardly a Hutterite conspiracy, however, I am sure all of them will hop on the bandwagon it they succeed.
A question I have: If neither they nor their husbands ever paid in, why should they get anything now?
Old enough, poor enough, disabled enough - you get it.
Well, Of course I remember what you are talking about.
But this is not that in my opinion.
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