home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!pyramid!pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com!jmuth
- From: jmuth@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (John Muth)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Medicaid confiscating real estate...
- Message-ID: <185045@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 20:04:53 GMT
- References: <185027@pyramid.pyramid.com> <C14Ay3.3G6@vcd.hp.com>
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View
- Lines: 30
-
- In article <C14Ay3.3G6@vcd.hp.com> johne@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Eaton) writes:
- >John Muth (jmuth@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com) wrote:
- >:
- >: Medicaid has the right to the property because it is a program to provide
- >: medical care to the poor, not a program to protect your inheiritence.
- >:-------------------
- >Medicaid is funded through a 1.45% tax on earned income up to some limit
- >in excess of $100K per year. That is a limit that few people would call
- >"poor". The goverment has decided that people who make more than that
- >limit should not have to pay anymore tax because they will be able to fund
- >their retirement themselves.
- >
- >The problem is that the goverment wants it both ways. They set the limit
- >too high so that a lot of high income people will have to pay the tax. But
- >these same people will have enough assets in retirement to pay for everything
- >they need. They should lower the income limits for FICA taxes and stop
- >paying retirement benefits to those who exceed the limits.
- >
- >John Eaton
- >!hp-vcd!johne
-
- John,
-
- FYI, Medi*CARE* is paid for with the 1.45% payroll tax and provides care to
- the elderly. Medi*CAID* (called MediCal in California) is paid
- for out of the general fund and provides care for the poor. While most
- eldery health care is paid by Medicare, nursing home care is paid for by
- Medicaid.
-
- John Muth
-