Gov. Christie Thinks A Family Making $6,000 A Year Is Too Rich To Qualify For Medicaid

[kpete]

Christie has proposed cutting Medicaid eligibility to absurdly low levels: from the current maximum income of $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/02/231147/christie-medicaid-recipients-rich/

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Adults in a family of three that makes as little as $103 a week would earn too much to qualify for health care provided by Medicaid under a sharply curtailed program Gov. Chris Christie wants the federal government to approve this year, according to state officials and advocates briefed on the proposal.<...>

The Christie administration is expected to propose cutting the maximum income level of Medicaid from $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three <...>

“That is about a third of the poverty level,” Castro said. “That means that an uninsured parent working full time at a minimum-wage job wouldn’t be eligible. … A parent who works half-time for minimum wage wouldn’t even qualify.

“Unfortunately, the only way these parents can become eligible for health coverage in the future is if the parent applies for and is eligible for welfare,” Castro added. “That sends the wrong message.”

MORE:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/proposed_christie_income_limit.html

[northoftheborder]

1. And who wants this ogre to run for president?

[butterfly77]

14. Careful now...

this may get locked because you are talking about Christie's big ass!

[demwing]

2. What is wrong with this dude's brain

I just can't understand the sheer villainy behind such a proposal.

[RevStPatrick]

3. No he doesn't...

He doesn't "believe" that.

The only thing he "believes" in is helping his corporate masters to amass yet more money and power, at the expense of everyone else on the planet. Christie, like all the other Republican "fiscal conservative" types of his ilk, are nothing but the public face of an ideology of killing off as many people as possible, so that "they" can have the place to themselves. And we enable them.

But you already knew that...

[PurityOfEssence]

4. So, in New Jersey, if you're making more than $4.85 a day, you're not poor

The very idea that this doesn't have people screaming from the rooftops shows what an ugly people we've become.

This country took a supremely nasty turn in 1980 and it's now unrecognizable.

[AndyTiedye]

11. Since 1980, the Media Only Works for THEM

There could be people screaming from the rooftops. How would we know?

[jtuck004]

5. The guy just (probably) spent $6K on a helicopter flight and state

patrol limo services to attend his kids ballgame and return.

He doesn't even see people who might try to survive on $6000 a year. Unless they need to move them so his helicpter can land.

[Wickerman]

6. Says the man who used 6K* to go watch his son's baseball game

$6,000 is an estimate absed on:

2.5 hrs of Helicopter time at $2K per hour
Staff and limos to drive him 1,000 yards to the baseball field from the football field. Includes Highway patrol on scene, driver and assorted staff with him.

[jtrockville]

8. ~6K, not his OWN $, but taxpayer $.

It's an important distinction. If he went to see his child play on his own dime, who'd care?

[ejpoeta]

7. really? how much did it cost the state for his little stunt with the helicopter and the car ride

and the cops and the flanking and all that jazz?

[KansDem]

9. Tough talk from someone who relies on Rotoraid to get to his son's baseball game!

Typical GOP mindset (Gang Of hyPocrites)

[MrScorpio]

10. Helicopter fuel ain't cheap. nt

[TheKentuckian]

12. What a horrid dumpsterfuck this piece of shit is.

[w4rma]

13. That's one way to make it useless for someone to find a job. (nt)