Hurray for Health Reform By PAUL KRUGMAN

[TheKentuckian]

49. The subsidy is to keep premiums to 10% of gross income, not to cover premiums for

for folks in that income bracket (based on a family of four, it is lower for less people and of course singles.

For those 133% or lower of the absurdly low poverty line (well below full time minimum wage income) they will supposedly get Medicaid. I say supposedly because the program is an easy target that has and will continue to absorb cuts, the program in many, if not most states is a fucking mess to the point that some aren't accepting applicants and more aren't paying out to providers, and HHS and Obama are quick to hand out waivers.

Folks making as little as $8 and $9 an hour make too much for Medicaid.

Yup, you went straight to the Reich Wing welfare queens frame, insisting that someone that makes 15 or 16 grand are cheapskates because they will be challanged to pony up 10% of their pre-tax earnings to the insurance cartel before they get a lick of care.

The issues were addressed not resolved. This isn't about care, if it was there would be no provision that if the subsidies plus 10% of your gross don't cover the premiums, that waivers will be issued. Instead those poor souls would get coverage at least under the terms that everyone else gets.