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My Good Babushka

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4. Taking your assets before you qualify for nursing home care,

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Tue May 24, 2016, 02:15 PM

May 2016

payday loans with 400% APR, police forces that run their districts, and fill their prisons with people who can't afford the fines and fees, police forces that go into poor schools and help fill private detention centers with kids who take milk or dare look at them the wrong way, it never ends in this country... the poor people are the money trees that the rich people shake.

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American Scandal, Obamacare, Medicaid, and their Stripping of Assets from Poor People [View all] Baobab May 2016 OP

This has always been the way leftofcool May 2016 #1

Correct. I'm not exactly sure what the changes are that are being discussed. enough May 2016 #3

NO other country does that Baobab May 2016 #5

My wife, a psychologist, has been sick at heart for years about the "qualifications" arendt May 2016 #2

Taking your assets before you qualify for nursing home care, My Good Babushka May 2016 #4

they imprison children who "take milk"? Baobab May 2016 #6

I just read this today! My Good Babushka May 2016 #7