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New healthcare law? Who is the beneficiary?

It seems like the poor already have medicaid, the very rich may want lower taxes and the middle and upper class need to get drained of assets before they qualify for medicaid. So the rich and poor are opposing it? Is this sandwich class warfare? I studied the bill and I am really confused about where the energy is coming from.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Hi, take a guess? Not the american people! The "beneficiary" is the "obama" adminstration! This healthcare(less) plan is another "change" for the worse!

  • Kini
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You are forgetting the purpose of the 2014 insurance exchange, for people who work and have no group health, or who dont qualify for low income Medicaid, to purchae their own insurance plan with a subsidy. The plan should have been to eliminate Medicaid, by offering low income people basic insurance rather than footing the bill for all their care as Medicaid does. Poor people are not opposing the Health Care Act. Conservatives are opposing it, from all income levels.

  • 1 decade ago

    In my experience, people who have something generally don't want you to have it, especially if they have been convinced it may cost them something (it probably wouldn't cost any more, but that is another issue). The rich can cover themselves, and the majority of others with health coverage are covered by the government already- they just don't want everyone else to be covered.

  • Bub
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    The entire bill leans on the personal mandate.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It doesn't really matter because the right house is going to do everything they can to make sure no one benefits.

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