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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by Crake on Monday October 28, 2013 @05:11AM (#6625898)
But access to college and health care isn't??
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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by Domenic_S on Monday October 28, 2013 @03:29PM (#6629215)
Access to health care gets conflated with some universal or Obamacare-type system, though.

Case in point: my grandparents are on medicare. They pay basically nothing for it. One of them just had bypass surgery and the other a knee replacement. Cost to them: $0.

We pretty much have universal access healthcare in the US before the Obamacare stuff if you go through the system.

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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by robryan on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:00AM (#6626243)
Well, that depends on the government. All the way from the very basic necessities to keep citizens alive to a guaranteed minimum income and full health, education and other services.

I don't think that there is any right level for all countries.

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