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Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013) by ghostcluster on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:52PM (#16894473)
medicaid also applies to the working poor, and it has been recently expanded to cover a larger demographic in many states.
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Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013) by opencl on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:14AM (#16895660)
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".

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