tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677054195356770838.post4863737114865511266..comments2024-01-24T11:31:17.214-08:00Comments on The Dad App: The OutsiderMcCord Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341524921094467756noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677054195356770838.post-23685262296361530092013-05-31T10:28:48.277-07:002013-05-31T10:28:48.277-07:00Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday....Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677054195356770838.post-71159637966370306972013-05-30T12:37:48.316-07:002013-05-30T12:37:48.316-07:00Spend 8 billion, but save 18 billion? Who could do...Spend 8 billion, but save 18 billion? Who could doubt that modest claim?<br />DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677054195356770838.post-40991367886849641342013-05-30T11:11:07.114-07:002013-05-30T11:11:07.114-07:00Thank you, Harriet. That means a lot, coming from ...Thank you, Harriet. That means a lot, coming from you. <br /><br />This post was my allegorical attempt to answer the question why 25 states have refused medicaid expansion despite the following facts (courtesy of the Kaiser Foundation): States must spend $8 billion to expand the program, but they save $18 billion in what they would have spent on uncompensated medical care (eg, ER visits by indigent patients); and in addition to the states actually making money on the program, the fed govt will spend $800 billion for the benefit of their poorest citizens. In states that don't participate, their citizens will nevertheless continue paying the federal taxes that will go to benefit the states that do. The decision not to participate seems so willfully ignorant that I figure it has to have some primitive base brain roots, and my blog post was my amateur psychologist attempt to get at those.McCord Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341524921094467756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1677054195356770838.post-76617230522452287802013-05-30T10:14:38.260-07:002013-05-30T10:14:38.260-07:00I love the parable sound to this story. It captur...I love the parable sound to this story. It captures just the way things so often work -- or, fall apart. It's wonderful, and so sad, how divinity comes into it, not as true divinity, but as something possessed by people ("our god"), or touted as their identity. So interesting, this voice -- clearly part of this village, and yet a saddened, clear-eyed observer.Harriet Chessmanhttp://www.harrietchessman.comnoreply@blogger.com