Oh, SNAP: What They Forget to Say About Food Stamp Cuts

At the end of October, supplemental aid to the federal food stamp program — officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — ran out.

USA Today reported "[v]ulnerable populations will be hardest hit." CNN posted a column by Feeding America's Bob Aiken that warned of the new "strain on millions of families struggling with food insecurity." Currently, there are 47 million Americans receiving SNAP entitlements. There were just over 28 million enrolled in 2008.

What's largely missing from the coverage is why cuts happened in the first place.

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Hunger activists are livid when they find out: Michelle Obama stole their food!!

Liberal zealots never learn, do they?

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Thirty to forty million lives were expended in Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward [simplified Chinese: 大跃进; traditional Chinese: 大躍進; pinyin: Dà yuè jìn] of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Never forget!

11/1/13: DHS Prepares for Rioting as Food Stamp Cuts Take Place Today

Obama's world: The Department of Homeland Security prepared for food stamp riots due to the November cuts to the program. . .

Food stamp welfare individuals must soon be chipped

It has begun.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17)

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Lessons from the Food Stamp Program for Health Care

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Lessons from the Food Stamp Program for Health Care

The Food Stamp program (SNAP) appears to work much better than health assistance programs for low-income seniors, says NCPA President and CEO John C. Goodman in his new book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.

Currently three Medicare savings programs are designed to make Medicare more affordable for poor and near-poor beneficiaries by paying premiums and eliminating out-of-pocket cost sharing:

·         The Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program pays all Medicare premi­ums and out-of-pocket cost sharing for beneficiaries who have incomes at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty level and who are ineligible for full Medicaid coverage.

·         The Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary Program pays Part B premiums for Medicare beneficiaries with incomes of 101 percent to 120 percent of the federal poverty level.

·         The Qualified Individual Program pays Part B premiums for beneficiaries with incomes of 121 percent to 135 percent of the federal poverty level.

Yet amazingly, fewer than one-third of eligible Medicare beneficiaries enroll in these programs.

Contrast what we do in health care with SNAP, which has about 60 million participants (most of whom are probably also Medicaid enrollees).

·         Low-income shoppers can enter any supermarket in America and buy almost anything the facility has to offer by adding cash to the "voucher" the government gives them.

·         They can buy anything you and I can buy because they pay the same price you and I pay.

·         But we forbid them to do the same thing in the medical marketplace.

Like food, health is gen­erally considered a necessity. So why not treat it the same way we treat food? This would make certain that the poor have the wherewithal to pay for their health care not by forcing them to wait or take poorer quality, but with health care dollars. These health care dollars would be full dollars to providers, ensuring that the poor can complete for resources with all other buyers of care.

Source: John C. Goodman, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, Independent Institute, June 2012.

To read more and purchase the book:

http://www.independent.org/priceless/