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Poverty Is the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the US, Research Shows

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wang_li wrote: post #66
qgin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

States without medicaid expansion are very rough. Most people don't realize that ACA plans have a minimum income to qualify. Medicaid was supposed to take over below that income level. If you're in Florida or Texas and are an adult who isn't currently pregnant (or have a legally declared disability), and make less than 150% of the federal poverty limit, there is literally no insurance you can get except paying full r…

The details vary but if you don’t earn much you usually qualify for additional cost-sharing reductions which cuts the costs of insurance plans under the ACA substantially.

As long as you make at minimum 150% of the federal poverty line. Under that, you don't even qualify for ACA at all. States are supposed to provide Medicaid under that line but some have refused.

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dmix wrote: post #20
Clubber wrote: post #13

I don't see how they made the connection to poverty and mortality. I'm sure there is one, but the fact the article didn't point out the specific cause and effect is disappointing. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought about a sharp increase in U.S. poverty as millions of people got sick, were thrown out of work, and lost health insurance. Are they trying to say that people died during Covid because an…

> Poverty is certainly policy choice to a degree. Housing is probably the biggest cause of poverty directly influenced by (existing) policy. Zoning alone could result in plenty of reduction in inequality among other stuff like reducing NIMBY power. I'm curious if now that we have a mountain of half empty offices which don't freely compete with residential development if the implications of zoning is even worse than b…

It would be nice to have a social safety net in regards to rent/mortgage. I'm not sure how to implement it though. The eviction moratorium played a big part in lack of homelessness during covid. The only problem is the government made property owners financially responsible for it. I'm not sure if they ever got compensated.

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Clubber wrote: post #82
dmix wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Poverty is certainly policy choice to a degree. Housing is probably the biggest cause of poverty directly influenced by (existing) policy. Zoning alone could result in plenty of reduction in inequality among other stuff like reducing NIMBY power. I'm curious if now that we have a mountain of half empty offices which don't freely compete with residential development if the implications of zoning is even worse than b…

It would be nice to have a social safety net in regards to rent/mortgage. I'm not sure how to implement it though. The eviction moratorium played a big part in lack of homelessness during covid. The only problem is the government made property owners financially responsible for it. I'm not sure if they ever got compensated.

Meh we need supply not bandaid'ing high rent costs. The housing crisis goes well beyond the homeless (which get the bulk of the attention, if not adequate solutions), which only ever results in half-baked subsidies or forcing skyscrapers to add a small amount of low income options. While the drumbeat of ever increasing housing costs continues.

Housing needs radical reform. There isn't a lack of capital to build this stuff. We don't need government to put up a bunch of money. The second they make building possible, in the places/ways the market demands, there will be a flood of new development which will directly benefit the low end of the market by not making tiny houses cost $1M and low-density suburban housing the only alternative.

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