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line you d get $3,000. $150,000 salary a year, and married couple you d get the same $3,000. the speaker believes that helps because economically if you get the same benefit regardless of your income you won t be discouraged from making more money because the benefit is the same. nice theory. if you do it that way you price a lot of lower income, near elderly people out of th insurance market. a number of members of congress and the senate who are working hard to fix that so you don t have a massive benefit cliff for medicaid to the tax credit portion of the healthcare system. you re worried about the lower income folks. you also say you like the medicaid overall which is going to slash coverage for people on medicaid. for a lot of people, that s their last resort. yeah, i just don t agree with that assessment. i don t think that s what the plan is going to do. the plan is going to replace the aca medicaid expansion with a