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Old 06-23-2009, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by disneysteve View Post
I have patients who are on disability. Many of them could return to gainful employment but if they do, they lose their medical insurance, so they remain on disability. The same thing would happen with expanded Medicaid coverage. That family earning 30K or less gets coverage. If their income climbs to 31K, the coverage disappears. Where is the incentive to move up the ladder in that scenario.

There's a difference between a specific flaw in a specific system and the blanket statement I was responding to.
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