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2. What does Obamacare take to the rich? For the most part, it

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 02:39 PM

Feb 2014

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preserves them by avoiding to finance healthcare according to your means. Payroll taxes are paid mostly by the middle class and working poor. Most of the rich revenues are not touched.

This does not mean that the Medicaid expansion and the subsidies are not good, but people have to stop saying it touches the rich. Middle class probably, but not them.

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