The ultra-conservative smirkers in Washington and state capitals think Medicaid is an easy target. After all, most of the program’s beneficiaries are poor women or kids. The former don’t vote all that much. The latter can’t vote. So politically speaking — and how else do ultra-conservatives speak these days, compassion and common decency being so, so liberal — politically speaking, Medicaid seems like a great big step to squeeze out huge cuts in government spending. Except…
Except that while most of the program’s beneficiaries are in fact poor women and children, the majority of the program’s actual spending goes elsewhere. It goes to paying for the elderly in nursing homes.
So when the Medicaid gougers achieve their goals, which looks to be fairly soon, there will be less money to pay for mom and dad when it comes time to send them off to a pleasant and well run old folks warehouse. Which means that these oldsters, instead of gifting their kids until they get broke enough to qualify for Medicaid nursing care, which so many older parents do these days, they will have to keep the money for their own care. Leaving less for the kids. Or maybe move in with the kids and let them care for the older generation at the expense of their own middle age lives.
It may take a few years, But be assured, When the gigglers who are making our government policy these days finish doing the sign of the dollar over the land in the Medicaid realm, happily going after people they see as too weak and helpless to defend themselves, they are going to stick it to the middle class as well. Big time.
They won’t care, though. Because they have the power. They aren’t sidetracked by trying to bring the country together. They divide, They rule. They destroy. And those they really serve, the real string pullers, will most certainly see that they are kept comfortable in their own old age.
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