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I suspect that over the next 10 years the percentage of WHITE Medicare recipients will be dropping anyway. As the general population ages, the impact of the continuing demographic trends will be felt there as well. And as for this idea that the Affordable Care Act was somehow designed as a 'welfare' program for minorities, this is purely the result of the fact that it is the minority communities who have been the ones where either their jobs or their incomes have prevented them from getting health insurance in the same manner or numbers as have traditionally been the case for WHITE Americans and their families.




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Those Despicable White, Heterosexual, Christian, Americans Who Worked For A Living
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Wed, 20 Nov 13 7:50 PM
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the Affordable Care Act can be construed as a transfer of benefits from Medicare, which serves an overwhelmingly white population of the elderly – 77 percent of recipients are white — to Obamacare, which will serve a population that is 54.7 percent minority. Over 10 years, the Affordable Care Act cuts $455 billion from the Medicare budget in order to help pay for Obamacare.

Those who think that a critical mass of white voters has moved past its resistance to programs shifting tax dollars and other resources from the middle class to poorer minorities merely need to look at the election of 2010, which demonstrated how readily this resistance can be used politically. The passage of the A.C.A. that year forced such issues to the fore, and Republicans swept the House and state houses across the country. The program’s current difficulties have the clear potential to replay events of 2010 in 2014 and possibly 2016.


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