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galen  ·  3835 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The most conservative way to fight poverty is to send everyone a government check

I'll be honest, I don't know of any articles that mention Medicare or health programs specifically, it's just when people say things like "anti-poverty programs" or "social welfare" I tend to think of healthcare as a part of that. Am I reading too much into those phrases?





user-inactivated  ·  3835 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Honestly it might depend in the author. I don't know. This is really a case where we'd have to look at the numbers they're using rather than just assuming the words mean what we expect.

galen  ·  3835 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough. If only articles like this were more transparent with their calculations.