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RE: Transabled .... Ofc there are - BmorePat87 - 06-07-2015 (06-06-2015, 10:45 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: That's an interesting question. Many times with [for-profit] insurance, your own negligence or illegal acts are not eligible to receive benefits. It's because of an incentive problem, which begs the question if social insurance programs should really be any different. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/report-social-security-overpaid-half-disability-31571903 SSA overpaid disability recipients by $17 billion over 10 years, with nearly half of those receiving benefits for disabilities getting overpaid. They managed to get $8b back, but still... RE: Transabled .... Ofc there are - JustWinBaby - 06-07-2015 (06-07-2015, 10:24 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: SSA overpaid disability recipients by $17 billion over 10 years, with nearly half of those receiving benefits for disabilities getting overpaid. They managed to get $8b back, but still... I'm not sure that's an argument against the point I was making. More just an example of govt waste and inefficiency and not an argument that we have the money when the govt is running deficits in the hundreds of billions. RE: Transabled .... Ofc there are - BmorePat87 - 06-07-2015 (06-07-2015, 07:52 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: I'm not sure that's an argument against the point I was making. More just an example of govt waste and inefficiency and not an argument that we have the money when the govt is running deficits in the hundreds of billions. I was adding on to the point you were making. There's currently already waste associated with these benefits, imagine adding more numbers to it. |