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by biggermike
1989 days ago
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> Medicaid is not "free" there are requirements, but assuming you qualify, there are hidden costs. Like for example. Totally different program (medicaid nursing home care) and not relevant because (1) it isn't medical care and (2) someone who has assets to draw down from is, by definition, not poor. > If after 4 years they want to gift their children with a few thousand euros to pay, for example, for their marriage, they don't have to worry about it. This isn't a realistic scenario (at least in theory). Medicaid nursing home eligibility is evaluated on a case by case basis and penalties are only incurred if the Medicaid applicant's intent is to defraud the government (i.e. you can't give away your money for the sole purpose of acquiring government benefits). |
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So it is a paid program
Payed by your poverty.
If you end up inheriting money from a distant uncle, you have to pay back.
> you can't give away your money for the sole purpose of acquiring government benefits
That's understandable.
And it's only necessary because the country with the highest spending per capita on healthcare cannot agree that the only reason why they don't create a free universal healthcare system is not because it is economically unfeasible (if it is for Italy, it is for USA, I usually argue that USA could do a much better job than us), but because they fear that without the incentive to become rich and distance yourself from State benefits, the system would collapse.
It's only a cultural problem: nobody wants to rely on the State providing base services because nobody wants to think of themselves as "being poor" because only poor people use public services.
When you come from countries where public figures, politicians, presidents, Queens and Kings and even the Pope go to public hospitals, you can't imagine why it should be a bad thing.