Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by SolaceQuantum on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:49AM
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Utah simply housed their homeless and it was cheaper because homeless people were no longer using emergency services for basic healthcare among other things[1]/
1. https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by mrarjen on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:01AM
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It's only a fraction of the people that are homeless in CA, but a great result none the less. Here is an article of just LA. Seems quite out of control compared with Utah. :(
1. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-2...
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by maxerickson on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:46AM
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About 60 million Americans receive some federal assistance.
A slightly larger number get healthcare from Medicaid.
The assistance is not a large amount per month, but it is there.
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by ckinnan on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:53AM
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Medicaid covers around 80 million people, at roughly $7,000 a year per recipient, which is double what the UK spends per patient.
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distribution-of...
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
by maxerickson on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:58AM
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The breakdown of the per recipient spending is useful:
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-spendi...
Much of the spending is on the elderly and disabled (which both group tend to have above average medical needs).
Here in NL we have some homeless, but also lots of government systems in place to offer housing and incentives to possibly work or get schooling.
In the end this is actually cheaper, as to prevent crime and what not. Not sure how this would work in the US.