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.
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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".