Moreover, if the revenues were used to improve public transport, the poor would benefit disproportionately.
The poor would be puzzled to hear that the profit motive is in retreat.
Clearly the poor would need to be exempt from patient charges - as they are in Europe.
The poor would consequently be freed from the Medicaid ghetto under such reform.
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Reformists put forth an argument as simple as it was elitist: Take gin away and the poor would fall back into line.
The poor would eat with the rich, the black with the white, the orthodox with the secular, workers with managers, scientists with artists.
Reformists from both camps put forth an argument as simple as it was elitist: Take gin away, and the poor would fall back into line.
Under a system of government borrowing, I would tend to think that the poor would be encouraged and assisted in moving out of their troubled existence.
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The poor would similarly gain from extending these same reforms to food stamps, just as they gained from the reforms of AFDC, with similar savings for taxpayers.
Lula mobilized people like Tanya and Sidney four years ago, pledging that the poor would be his priority if he, a labor leader of humble origins, became president.
Moreover, scepticism that the poor would not comply with the strictures of such drug programmes (in particular, the need to take the drugs regularly to prevent the evolution of resistant strains) has proved unfounded.
But with the above reform, the poor would enjoy the same health care as the middle class because they would have the same private insurance as the middle class, paying market rates for care.
They have sent mixed signals throughout Chavez's post-operative days, and in an early February opinion survey nearly three in five Venezuelans said they believed the president whose largesse has endeared him to the poor would recover.
Sustained, rapid economic growth is also the ultimate solution to poverty, as after a couple of decades or so of such growth, the poor would climb to the same living standards as the middle class of today.
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Workers would be empowered with the freedom to choose them in place of employer provided coverage, the poor would be empowered to choose them for their Medicaid coverage, seniors would be empowered to choose them for Medicare.
According to a study by Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, improving the delivery of clean water and sanitation to the poor would be a highly cost-effective way to use additional aid to developing countries.
The real entitlement reform opportunity is that with basic, fundamental, structural reforms, that change the way the programs operate, and the governing incentives, seniors and the poor would enjoy better benefits, while government spending and the costs to taxpayers are radically reduced.
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Instead, the poor would be liberated to enjoy the same health care as the middle class, because they would have the same health insurance as the middle class, which has to pay doctors and hospitals well enough so that those covered by the insurance can get timely care.
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So, if outlays exceeded 20.6 percent of GDP, Social Security checks would shrink and doctors who treat the poor or the elderly would see their pay cut.
Projected out to 2050, he reckoned, Medicare and Medicaid (the government schemes that insure the elderly and the poor) would together consume some 20% of America's GDP, almost as much as the entire federal budget of today.
New entrepreneurial activity also provides employment opportunities for the poor that would not otherwise be there.
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Given large subsidies hospitals, nursing homes and other medical care facilities like surgery centers get to care for patients covered by Medicare or state Medicaid insurance programs for the poor, would you support broader public health insurance support for retail health clinics like those run by CVS (CVS), Walgreen (WAG) and other forms of ambulatory care which have proven to be convenient and cost-effective for Americans?
As the exhibit explains, he knew that higher tariffs would hurt the poor in the form of higher prices for goods and that bonds would disproportionately benefit the rich.
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Besides meeting the basic needs of the very poor, the scheme would bring two other benefits: jobs and much-needed infrastructure.
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Critics have warned that the ban would punish the poor, who might try to save money by buying a larger drink to share at the movies, for example.
Alternatively, states could serve the poor by using the program to provide premium assistance that would help the poor to pay for the private health insurance of their choice in the marketplace.
One wonders, as well, which social programs for the poor funded by Washington Stern would cite for having successfully helped the poor.
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According to the people, players would be fined for mistakes or poor plays, the money would go into a pot, and then it would be distributed for hard hits that knocked opponents out of games, with payments into and out of the pot tracked throughout the seasons.
The precedent would be poor for discipline as Conservative MPs would ask why they should follow the rules if others do not and get away with it.
Alternatively, states could serve the poor by using the program to provide public assistance through Medicaid that would help the poor to pay for the private health insurance of their choice in the marketplace.
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