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Originally Posted by alexamenos
4 million out of a population of 25 million?! Wow. That's a huge proportion.
I'm having trouble understanding how giving 17% of the population a suck on the state tit can be considered "stingy".
Amongst the remaining population, probably no more than 50-60% are employed in the private sector, so every working person is essentially picking up 1/3rd of the health care tab for one medicare recipient.
That's gotta run a couple or three grand a year.....
.....yeah, I'm having trouble understanding how dropping a couple grand a year on a complete stranger is "stingy".
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I think the perception of "stingy" might have something to do with the fact that Texas spends 7.5% of its total budget on Medicaid (49th out of 50 states) compared to a national average of >21%. Or that Texas leads the nation in uninsured residents (25%) compared with the national average of (15%).