A Yearly Income of $6,000 is Rich?
June 2, 2011 at 4:23 PM Leave a comment
Imagine being in a family of three, having a yearly family income of $6,000, and being told you’re too rich to qualify for health care assistance:
Despite recent polls that show Americans are just as protective of Medicaid as they are of Medicare, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is trying to gut the popular program in his state and prevent 23,000 people from receiving benefits. Christie has proposed cutting Medicaid eligibility to absurdly low levels: from the current maximum income of $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three. Apparently, the governor believes a family of three making $6,000 a year is simply too rich to receive Medicaid.
This is how totally, insanely out of whack things get when politicians represent corporations and the truly rich instead of We the People.
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