Obamacare for criminals

[alan1]

Justice Dept.: At Least 35% Of People Eligible For Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Have Criminal Histories - Forbes

snip,

If you listen to the President, and other supporters of Obamacare, you might get the impression that the reason why tens of millions of Americans go without health insurance is because these people have pre-existing conditions, and health insurers are too mean to cover them. The truth is quite different. Less than a million Americans lack health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. And it turns out that a good number of Americans are uninsured not because they are sick, but because they are convicted criminals.

Honest hard working people like you and I not only pay for our health care, but we are now being forced to pay for the medical care of dishonest thugs and criminals.

 

[westwall]

Justice Dept.: At Least 35% Of People Eligible For Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Have Criminal Histories - Forbes

snip,

If you listen to the President, and other supporters of Obamacare, you might get the impression that the reason why tens of millions of Americans go without health insurance is because these people have pre-existing conditions, and health insurers are too mean to cover them. The truth is quite different. Less than a million Americans lack health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. And it turns out that a good number of Americans are uninsured not because they are sick, but because they are convicted criminals.

Honest hard working people like you and I not only pay for our health care, but we are now being forced to pay for the medical care of dishonest thugs and criminals.

But alan, don't you know they deserve your hard won cash! Look at the bright side...at least they're not burglarizing your house!

 

[theDoctorisIn]

This is no more true now than it was before "Obamacare".

Criminal histories don't disqualify people from Medicare, and never have.

 

[idb]

Justice Dept.: At Least 35% Of People Eligible For Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Have Criminal Histories - Forbes

snip,

If you listen to the President, and other supporters of Obamacare, you might get the impression that the reason why tens of millions of Americans go without health insurance is because these people have pre-existing conditions, and health insurers are too mean to cover them. The truth is quite different. Less than a million Americans lack health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. And it turns out that a good number of Americans are uninsured not because they are sick, but because they are convicted criminals.

Honest hard working people like you and I not only pay for our health care, but we are now being forced to pay for the medical care of dishonest thugs and criminals.

Presumably, if they've been convicted and served their punishment then they have the rights to the same benefits as anyone else.

 

[alan1]

The point is, criminals are disproportionately over represented in collecting this benefit as compared to the hard working Americans we were told it was for.

 

[alan1]

This is no more true now than it was before "Obamacare".

Criminal histories don't disqualify people from Medicare, and never have.

You didn't read the article, did you?
35% of the eligible people due to the expansion are convicted criminals. 35% of the population are not convicted criminals.
Get it?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

This is no more true now than it was before "Obamacare".

Criminal histories don't disqualify people from Medicare, and never have.

You didn't read the article, did you?
35% of the eligible people due to the expansion are convicted criminals. 35% of the population are not convicted criminals.
Get it?

The whole point of the article is that 35% of people poor enough to qualify for the Medicare expansion have criminal histories.


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[alan1]

This is no more true now than it was before "Obamacare".

Criminal histories don't disqualify people from Medicare, and never have.

You didn't read the article, did you?
35% of the eligible people due to the expansion are convicted criminals. 35% of the population are not convicted criminals.
Get it?

The whole point of the article is that 35% of people poor enough to qualify for the Medicare expansion have criminal histories.


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Incorrect.
It's that 35% eligible for benefits due to the expansion are convicted criminals that spent time in jail or prison.
Again, let me point out that 35% of the population is not convicted of crimes that result in jail/prison time.

 

[MeBelle]

This is no more true now than it was before "Obamacare".

Criminal histories don't disqualify people from Medicare, and never have.

You didn't read the article, did you?
35% of the eligible people due to the expansion are convicted criminals. 35% of the population are not convicted criminals.
Get it?

The whole point of the article is that 35% of people poor enough to qualify for the Medicare expansion have criminal histories.

It's Medicaid, not Medicare.

Good luck with that Medicaid coverage.

 

[BobPlumb]

I would expect many people to be poor after spending years in prison. And I am no fan of Obamacare. This is just demographics.

 

[JFK_USA]

Many people who have served time in prison normally don't come out of prison rich people. They can only get jobs in low wage areas. That means they can't afford health insurance so it would make sense that they would qualify for Medicaid expansion.

Just because someone in the past committed a crime doesn't mean they don't have healthcare needs. They served their time, they don't need to be consistently punished for their crimes and be denied healthcare.