I doubt it. Not too many people are going to go become crab fisherman, lumberjacks, gold miners or alligator hunters or whatever. Most trade jobs these days are tied to the housing market, which hasn’t been all that great.
Even if you don’t count the social security surplus, the gov’t took in 800 billion in taxes for these programs last year. So the majority is self-funded, like I said.
Of the rest, the majority is medicare and medicaid.
Then plug in the social security surplus and you have a very small portion of the deficit, if any, caused by age-related social security payments. Which is why it is valid to break it out and consider it separately rather than one monolithic, $1.5 trillion program.
Thankfully no, most people do not come to this conclusion. Your statement is completely riddled with holes. Apparently dont know the difference of someone who has a developmental disability and a neuropsychiatric one. If you honestly believe that a psych disability has to include running naked witha red bozo wig, you have alot of completely erroneous beliefs on the matter
ah but does she make enough to pay $125 or more per visit to get therapy, which should be done at minimum weekly if not twice weekly, takes several months and can she get off work to attend the sessions? and what does she do if it turns out the issue is a biological one that calls for expensive life risking potentially further debilitating surgery like brain surgery? (rare but it exists) is her boss going to be tolerant of the wide and disturbing side effects that take place if they decide to try and medical cocktail treat her, providing she can afford the meds which can be as much as $300 for a months supply of just ONE of the cocktail of meds?
that is the reality of mental health care. unless you have medicaid which will pay in full, even if you have private insurance or medicare they pay 10% on average and the rest is out of your pocket, as well as most private ins will only pay their pittance coverage for a limited number of appts, the lowest I have heard is three, the most generous has been 10. sometimes that’s in a year, sometimes that is for the entire duration of the policy.and you need an employer who will let you take the time as opposed to sacking you for some contrived reason.
People sneer because the mentally supposedly don’t try to get better. I just lost the ONLY therapist within 60 miles of me who accepts medicare AT ALL, and it will be months before someone will replace her, if ever. That is a common problem as well.
The system would be a nightmare for someone mentally well, trying to get through it while mentally ill? There is a reason why a lot of homeless are mentally ill.
Go ahead, make some calls. see how easily and what it would cost to go into therapy and how game your boss would be for it. Be prepared to run the risk of losing your job though.
just because what someone sees as a solution does not mean it is doable, or should the mentally ill take up prostitution or armed robbery to get treatment?
in your state yes, I worked in clerical jobs for slightly higher than minimum wage. part of medicaid here is that int late 70’s they averaged the cost of utilities over the entire state and came up with figure of three hundred and something dollars. That is all that you are credited for regardless of your actual utility cost. My heating bill is more than 300 many months.
about the only people who get medicaid here are high school dropouts with numerous children who have never worked a day in their life, they not only get full medical care and foodstamps but also cash for rent, transportation, pretty much everything.
a friend told me the other day IF I could find a way to move, I qualify for full assistance no contest in most states, despite having stayed in school, not had children and working to the point I was taken from my last two jobs by ambulance because I did not have the health to do the job but damn it was trying anyway. In Indiana, that is all a negative.
one year I 'ghost wrote" (guy had the basic outline I put it all together) for a guy oversees and earned close to a thousand bucks. it took a year, i did it from home, sometimes from my bed. Feeling hopeful, I sounded out every publishing company I could find looking for some one to let me do similar, or editing, or something.
the response was I had only a high school diploma, no…and yet when prior to this I had worked clerical for a national magazine I had been made to “cover” an editors job (with no additional pay, it fell under 'other duties as required," a phrase that should be banned from job descriptions)in addition to the clerical job. I could not move from the clerical job to the editors job I was doing because of…no college degree.They did not attempt at any point to hire an editor until I quit. This type of thing happened at more than that one job.
if this country followed having requirements for ethical and fair treatment of employees like other countries, we would probably see an improvement.
when I asked exactly why I did NOT qualify even though I paid into the system and my income is poverty level I was told, word for word “You have an education and you don’t have children, you’ll never get medicaid in this state without under aged or severely disabled dependents that have no income of their own.” straight out of a medicaid workers mouth.
The good thing is that the piece was such obvious crap, so intellectually flawed and propaganda-soaked, that Ira Glass and the This American Life/Planet Money/NPR people were forced to respond to their critics. The downside is that the critics were far too respectful, basing their criticism on factual flaws rather than on the corruption that made the flawed reporting not just possible, but inevitable.
inevitable due to major conflicts of interest, listed at the link