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A comment on How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness. Parent comment

Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by ksenzee on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:00PM (#13896313)
a) Lots of people bring that argument up. I hear it all the time.

b) There's a difference between "the US pays" and "the US government pays".

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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by DanBC on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:58PM (#13918692)
The US government pays more for healthcare than average.

http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-does-uk-healthcare-spending-com...

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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by Joof on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:54PM (#13918661)
For b) we get the worst of both worlds. The US government pays one of the highest costs per person AND it costs the individual an exorbitant amount. Without significantly better outcomes.
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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by lostlogin on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:16PM (#13896478)
Can you explain b). Doesn't "the US government pays" mean that the US pays, one step later?
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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by jpttsn on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:39PM (#13896689)
Yes-ish; but maybe not the other way around.
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