$6000 a year too much for Medicaid in New Jersey

[dsc]

at least if high flying Christie has his way.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/02/981446/-Chris-Christie:-$6,000-a-year-is-too-much-income-to-qualify-for-Medicaid?via=blog_1

Adults in a family of three that makes as little as $103 a week would earn too much to qualify for health care provided by Medicaid under a sharply curtailed program Gov. Chris Christie wants the federal government to approve this year, according to state officials and advocates briefed on the proposal.<...>

The Christie administration is expected to propose cutting the maximum income level of Medicaid from $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three <...“That is about a third of the poverty level,” Castro said. “That means that an uninsured parent working full time at a minimum-wage job wouldn’t be eligible. … A parent who works half-time for minimum wage wouldn’t even qualify.[br />

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Literally unbelievable.

[Enrique]

1. that can't be right

is that a typo?

[dsc]

2. I am presuming not

since it was broken down by week.

[sasha031]

4. it's correct, it was reported eariler

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1215477

[Enrique]

3. how many of Christie's sons baseball games is $5,317?

something like 2 or 3, right?

[Pigheaded]

5. Good Grief

I am a "Middler" but that is asinine.

It will put him out of a POTUS run though.

PH

[roguevalley]

6. he needs to be one of them. soon.