Posted on 04/08/2003 6:29:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:50:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Legislation moving through Congress could save California more than $1 billion annually in paying for prescription drugs for its senior and disabled citizens on both Medicare and Medicaid, according to a study released today.
The legislation -- sponsored by Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., and backed by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Bakersfield -- could also give California the opportunity to avoid severe cuts in other Medicaid services for children and parents, said the Commonwealth Fund of New York, a private health policy think-tank.
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Your comment suggesting a means test for federal benefits is straight out of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
The U.S. was not established to be altuistic. Liberty is dependent upon self-determination of private property and equal protection under the law.
Someone way smarter than me, states the definition of alruism below:
"The moral principle used to justify income redistribution is altruism. Altruism does not mean generosity or benevolent concern for the less fortunate. Altruism means: other-ism. It is the doctrine that it is your moral duty to live for others and to sacrifice your life, property and well-being for theirs. It is the code of self-sacrifice. Under altruism the productive are the ones who must give and the non-productive are those who receive. The inability or unwillingness of the non-productive to create wealth gives them a moral claim upon those who do."
"Most Americans would be shocked to learn that altruism is the moral code that underlies Marxism (and thus Communism). Marx's credo was: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need."
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