Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013)
by opencl on Saturday April 21, 2018 @09:11AM
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Please, I live in the rust belt and knew several people that have died from this. None of them were unemployed. The government giving out money has nothing to do with it. People living off disability benefits can't afford heroin anyway, they're lucky if they can afford both rent and food.
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Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013)
by ghostcluster on Saturday April 21, 2018 @05:13PM
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They can afford prescription painkillers through medicaire and medicaid. If you set aside your personal anecdote and look at the actual data, it is a real thing that is happening in the US: https://www.propublica.org/article/extreme-use-of-painkiller...
Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013)
by opencl on Saturday April 21, 2018 @05:24PM
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You were specifically referring to people with no jobs collecting disability benefits. I certainly agree that people obtaining these drugs when they don't need them through insurance/medicare/medicaid is a problem.
Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013)
by ghostcluster on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:52PM
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medicaid also applies to the working poor, and it has been recently expanded to cover a larger demographic in many states.
Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013)
by opencl on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:14AM
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This isn't a "government giving poor people money" problem, it's a "doctors writing inappropriate prescriptions" problem that is unrelated to the source of funding and clearly happens with private insurance as well.
Your post that I was replying to was also very specifically NOT about the working poor, but about jobless people on disability having a "lack of purpose".