Scrapping Welfare

[blackforest]

That defeats the purpose of subsidized childcare, which enables people to stay afloat and pay basic living expenses.

 

[philipl]

No it allows companies like walmart to pay $10 an hour instead of $17 or more. I would love to see companies like walmart have on site day care.

 

[blackforest]

I’d agree with the daycare. And I don’t like how Walmart weasels out of paying decent wages by brazenly referring their employees to government programs.

 

[Pup7]

Pup7:

I live in a world where pretty much all care is 100 percent covered,

So you don’t think if they had to start paying for their specialists, it wouldn’t have an impact?
It would also take a shift in attitude by primary care doctors, who now seem quick to send you off to a specialist.

I think the public would save money even if it meant they saw the specialist less frequently because they were paying a much larger share.

No, because the people who do have to pay go anyway and gripe about the copay. You can’t please most people no matter what you do.

I think all of us should pay a premium for TRICARE itself. Sometimes I explain civilian coverage to people who have only known TRICARE as adults. The reaction is almost amusing. Some don’t even believe me - until they go and actually look it up for themselves.

 

[Pup7]

You’d have to adjust it for income. For example, when I was at my worst, I definitely needed to see a psychiatrist regularly. I also did not have an income, for pretty much the same reasons I needed to see a psychiatrist regularly. If it wasn’t 100% covered I couldn’t afford it.

The response was about lifestyle changes and people who are TRICARE recipients. People make horrible lifestyle choices even with access to free primary care. I don’t think income figures into that. Colonels with $10K a month base pay (yep, that exists) make the same lousy choices as sergeants bringing in $2500 in base pay. And both are equally blind to why they’re having issues. It’s frustrating.

 

[blackforest]

One possible solution to the welfare question:

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