“The Hell of Applying for Government Benefits” is an Atlantic article worth reading. There are all kinds of numbers regarding the Handout Nation that we’ve built (see The Redistribution Recession for example), but what does it feel like when a taxpayer tries to get her hands on some of the benefits that she has been funding?
Also worth checking out, from the same magazine, is “The Unconscionable Difficulty of Getting Health Insurance for a Newborn”:
New York’s Child Health Plus (CHP) program predates the Affordable Care Act but has been absorbed into it and is now available via various providers, such as Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield. … What no one told me is that CHP is not obligated by the state to backdate coverage of qualified newborn infants so as to guarantee them health insurance from their first day of life.
The comments on the story (at The Atlantic’s site) are interesting. I wondered if it was just me that was not getting sufficiently worked up about the author’s “problems.” Apparently not.
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