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Quotes from The Economic Illusion — Robert Kuttner

born 1943 United States

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By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs — and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

The Economic Illusion (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Kuttner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.