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Slimebeast said:
Wow apparently the bill that the Republicans voted against would have cost $7.1 billion!
$7 billion just to cover the medical expenses for supposed health problems of emergency workers due to 9/11.
LOL!
Ridiculous. If it was $7 million it would have been reasonable, or even $70 million. But $7,000 million for a few rescue workers' supposed health problems. USA is crazy.
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It was going to be paid for by closing a corporate tax loophole. So it wouldn't have cost tax payers anything.
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Or they could just close the loophole and just lower peoples taxes by 7 billion. Or just paid for stuff that's already not being paid for.
There is no way it should cost 7 billion to treat them.
Assuming there were 1 million rescue workers... which, there was nowhere near that many... that's 700 Million a piece.
What?
It's like the Healthcare Health Exchange that's going to cost us billions of dollars... when it's going to be a website like Orbitz... where the fuck does all this money go? I'm guessing Orbitz doesn't spend BILLIONS on their website.
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You might want to check your math on that one. Theres only a thousand million in a billion
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My bad on that one. Still 70 million is still ridiculious.... I mean 7 million a piece would still be VERY high, and there weren't nearly that many workers.
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Still wrong. 7 million a piece would only be one thousand people. 70 million a piece would be one hundred.
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Eh, regardless it's ridiculiously high number, doing the math quickly without thinking about it honestly, because it's just such a ridiculious number.
The number of people who have filed complaints is 10,000. (looked it up it's over 10,000, but not worth saying "tens of thousands."
So
7 billion into 10,000. Maybe 20,000 if your lucky and the numbers explode.
So, taking my time this time... it actually is 700 million per person, or if "lucky" 350 million.
Why not just cut everybody a check for 5 million?
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Not to nitpick, but with 10000 people it would be seven hundred thousand for each person. Which seems reasonable if you know how high medical bills for cancer and things of that nature can run.
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How is it several hundred thousand per person, on a 7 billion cost?
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7 billion/ 10000 = 700,000
Thats how
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Yeah, that's what i get for shorthanding it. Though 700 to 350 million does still seem VERY high for people with cancer... i've known people who've gone through various cancer treatments... including my mom.
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I think it depends on severity and length of treatment, but 700,000 isn't out of the question.
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maybe if you have no health insurance it's a possibility. Which would be another more useful way to use that money... just fund their healthcare, or medicare.
700,000 has to take into account other shit too, like lost jobs and such. Some of which is unrelated due to the shittiest economy in a while.
