(10-29-2018, 07:50 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-29-2018, 06:53 AM)mikesez Wrote: right or wrong, expanding Medicaid was the solution to the problem that Stroud crowd describes.

Lol, if it was wrong it was not a solution, it was a mistake.

Getting back to the original complaint, StroudCrowd complained that
"It's impossible for the unemployed to afford healthcare."  It was impossible before Obamacare as well, but, expanding Medicaid would have helped some people afford it.
"Obamacare punished them for not buying something they couldn't afford." This is not exactly true.  People with low incomes were never charged any penalty at all.  The penalty started small and scaled up with income.  And in any case, some of them would have been able to afford it, if the state had done its part.

Whether or not expanding Medicaid would have made sense from the state budget perspective is sort of changing the subject from StroudCrowd's complaint, which is focused on poor or unemployed people.  It's not as if Obamacare intended to ignore such people.  Some problems are hard.  Complaining about Obama's solution without being able to put forward your own solution is not principled, it is whining.

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