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You talk about Europe and Scandinavia, I post information about the entire world, from the World Health Organization. I should have left my comment about Canada out, since it confused you. You post a link from Wikipedia. MmmKay!
Per the WHO for obesity only:
US: 33.6%
UK: 26.2%
Italy: 21.4%
Sweden: 21.4%
Germany: 21.9%
The thing is, many on here seem to think overweight/obesity is a problem only in the US. And I would suggest you look up some drinking stats for these countries.
Your comment about Canada didn't confuse me, please. I simply pointed out that my comment was SPECIFIC to Europe and Scandinavia because those are the two areas mentioned in the quote I was replying to.
Secondly, my link from Wikipedia, although broken, actually sources the data from the WHO site that you linked to, so if that source is bad, then you shouldn't be linking to it either, MmmKay! Also, you are actually misrepresenting the numbers you have above because your link to the WHO reports are for the MALE populations only, whereas the Wikipedia link I am sourcing uses the WHO data for both sexes, so what you have posted above is wrong.
Not sure what to tell you. The info is quite clear:
Quote:
"In order to qualify for this benefit program, you must be a resident of the state of Texas, a U.S. national, citizen, permanent resident, or legal alien, in need of health care/insurance assistance, whose financial situation would be characterized as low income or very low income. You must also be either pregnant, a parent or relative caretaker of a dependent child(ren) under age 19, blind, have a disability or a family member in your household with a disability, or be 65 years of age or older. In order to qualify, you must have an annual household income (before taxes) that is below the following amounts:
As the official benefits website of the U.S. government, our mission is to reduce the expense and difficulty of interacting with the government while increasing citizen access to benefit information.
Thats a very, very far cry from saying that anyone who earns less than $40 000 in Texas qualify for Medicaid like you claimed.
I said a parent of a child under 19 in a household of 3 with a household income of under $40,000 qualifies, and that's true, per "the official benefits website of the U.S. government." I posted the info AND the link in my prior post. Read it.
The real free stuff are wars, deregulations/bailouts, gifts to big pharma, anti-worker trade deals, no-bid government contracts etc etc, the list is endless.
The real free stuff are wars, deregulations/bailouts, gifts to big pharma, anti-worker trade deals, no-bid government contracts etc etc, the list is endless.
You'll never get a genuine answer to this question, IC. Just parrot talk. As evidenced above.
Don't forget a couple of things. Under Medicare for everyone, Medicaid essentially ceases to exist. That's billions of dollars. That states could put in whatever they are putting into Medicaid now. The VA essentially goes away too. Veterans could go wherever they wanted. Right off the top we'd be saving almost 30% of our current healthcare spending because that's going to administrative overhead due to insurance companies.
There are other savings to be taken into account when figuring out the tax rate.
I said a parent of a child under 19 in a household of 3 with a household income of under $40,000 qualifies, and that's true, per "the official benefits website of the U.S. government." I posted the info AND the link in my prior post. Read it.
No, you said anyone earning less than $40 000 qualify for Medicaid in Texas, including single childless people and single mothers. The fact is that if you earn more than $3000 in Texas, you dont qualify and if you dont have children you cant even make 3000, the income limit is $0.
For the last time, what you are quoting is the 200% of the federal poverty level, that's the cut off to qualify for the benefits for the child (or pregnant women). That's NOT the qualifier for the adult coverage.
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Also, you are actually misrepresenting the numbers you have above because your link to the WHO reports are for the MALE populations only, whereas the Wikipedia link I am sourcing uses the WHO data for both sexes, so what you have posted above is wrong.
