First, Medicaid will no longer cover the near poor (an expansion enacted as part of health reform).
More than 12 million Americans are still out of work, and 107 million Americans are considered poor or near poor (up from 81 million a decade ago).
This includes the elderly and disabled on Medicare, the poor and near poor on Medicaid and the newly insured in subsidized private plans that pay little better than what Medicaid pays.
Ninety percent are poor or near-poor.
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States that expand Medicaid effectively are denying these near-poor individuals private coverage under the exchange.
But it completely failed to consider that if Florida did not expand Medicaid, the federal government would end up providing even larger subsidies to would-be Medicaid eligibles who are near-poor.
In late 2010, increasing inflation, driven by higher and volatile food prices, posed an increasing challenge to economic policymakers and threatened to push millions of the near-poor below the poverty line.
But in states that already have expanded Medicaid (prior to Obamacare) to close to poverty, it is easily possible that there will be a much higher ratio of near-poor would-be Medicaid eligible than would-be eligibles with incomes below poverty.
But even states that appear to be gaining jobs on balance need to remember that these benefits are gained at the expense of poorer health among the near-poor who will be forced away from private coverage through exchanges onto the rolls of Medicaid.
But the man in the picture, Shane Keller, tells the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper of Rochester that it was actually taken in his basement in Brighton, a relatively well-to-do suburb with low crime that is nowhere near the poor neighborhoods that were the subject of the photo essay.
Meanwhile, the poor old Near East seems to have disappeared, along with the second world, though the third world is still with us.
Gary McSheffrey replied in style just before the break, pouncing on Mark Hudson's poor pass near half-way to beat Kevin McNaughton and hit home.
The 800m section of the 2, 000-year-old Roman wall at Great Chesters, near Haltwhistle, is in poor repair because of weather and animal grazing.
Asked to rate their personal position on a ten-point scale of satisfaction, middle-class respondents are far more likely to put themselves near the top than are poor ones.
Until then, the economy will continue to slow and report poor results in the near term.
Derailment of a freight train near Reading station was caused by poor packing of carriages, a report said.
Bad appointments (Don Rumsfeld, Mike Brown and the near disaster of Harriet Miers) and poor communication skills prevented a higher grade.
He was born poor, on a farm, near the small coastal town of Minehead in the west of England in 1917.
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Maze had a near-perfect first run, but a poor start to the second cost her valuable time and she finished 0.08 seconds behind Vonn.
Many poor people who live in or near forests may actually welcome the opportunity to farm on deforested land and bureaucrats in distant capitals may think that unsustainable and low-revenue-yielding forest operations are politically preferable to what they perceive as expensive alternatives.
Why should the costs of living near criminals be imposed entirely on non-criminal poor people?
Poor African and Latin American nations rank near the bottom in this survey.
Because they are poor and have the misfortune to live near the tropics, those most likely to be affected will be least able to adapt.
It follows clashes on Wednesday between police and a number of refugees protesting against poor living conditions, at a camp near the Akcakale in Turkey, near the Syrian border.
He settles in an old cowboy bunkhouse without electricity or running water near the town of Woolybucket where he proves a poor salesman of pig hell and an even worse liar.
But provided liberalisation keeps creeping along, for a while an economy that increases by anywhere near 7% may seem impressive compared with the poor South-East Asian tigers that India was so keen to emulate.
The four were believed to have been the only victims until the mother of 15-year-old Ana Gabriela Nataret Ramirez told Milenio Television lateTuesday that their daughter had died in hospital after being found covered with apparent dog bites near the Cerro de la Estrella park in the poor southeastern Mexico City district of Iztapalapa on the night of Dec. 16.
Elsewhere in Turkey, the government has been giving away coal, school textbooks and, as the elections draw near, even fridges and washing-machines to the poor.
The South African National Taxi Council, representing some 95% of taxi operators, has aired the idea of launching a low-cost taxi airline to cater for the urban poor, few of whom have been anywhere near a plane.
Born Nicholas Breakspear in about 1100 at Abbots Langley, near St Albans, he was the son of an educated but poor man.
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