In case anyone tells you otherwise, please remember that Medicare and Social Security are meant to keep the elderly from living on dog food and dying in squalor due to poverty and lack of medical care.
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I can't believe how carefully I have to watch my food budget these days. Been trying for 3 years to pick up some part-time work and that's becoming more unlikely as I age.
And I hate that politicians call it “entitlements”. It’s like they’re trying to say senior citizens are a bunch of Kevin’s and Karen’s who want “free stuff”. No they’re not. They paid into Social Security.
And the fact that billionaires are telling you it’s a bad thing means it must be a good thing for the people, and just more money they want to get their hands on, by convincing gullible folk it’s a bad thing.
It's also meant to ease the financial burden of the elderly on their children or other relatives. It helps prevent generation poverty. Working their entire life to become a burden to their children/relatives is probably not the expectation of many people "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"
A burden of caretaking which was conveniently placed on women. Before SSA, women were even tasked with providing free caretaking for all of their inlaws, too, especially if their husbands had no sisters. Men didn't care, so long as they didn't have to do it.
Musk and Trump are already priming MAGA voters for when the checks don't show up. The Democrats and Deep State stole the money and now it's gone. Elon tried heroically to save it but it was too late.
And 47% on Medicaid are children, & it covers almost half of all births in 🇺🇸.
Medicaid means those expectant mothers can get appropriate prenatal care to assess if they're at high risk or not.
Calling yourself "pro life" to oppose abortion rights, but not demanding EXPANDED Medicaid is 💯 hypocrisy!
And meanwhile the elderly are living horrible lives in nursing homes, with a low quality of life extended by Medicare and unnecessary healthcare spending.
No but it’s way more important that we give tax breaks to billionaires so they can afford 2nd (heck 3rd or 4th) weddings in Italy, chauffeured there on 500 million dollar yachts, and staying along with their guests in $32,000/night hotels. Capitalism at it’s most insane
F*cking reverse Robin Hood.
Before Medicare a relative working as cashier in groceries said old people were eating dog and cat food,cheaper than human food then, to keep up nutritional needs and stay out of the very expensive health care system. Looks likely scenario going forward unless you fire all the repubs
Yes, you can. If a food company kills Uncle Joe, people get upset but are worried whether he had insurance or not. Kill their dog, and they go insane with grief and crave revenge. A manager of a pet food company told me it was recession-proof. People will feed their pets and starve themselves.
Also because at some point people become too old to work (or to be hired), and insurance companies don't want anything to do with covering health care for old people.
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It’s out money
All that’s left is cannibalism soon
For some, it is all they have. Can't even imagine them cutting off people in their 70s, 80s, 90s
Medicaid means those expectant mothers can get appropriate prenatal care to assess if they're at high risk or not.
Calling yourself "pro life" to oppose abortion rights, but not demanding EXPANDED Medicaid is 💯 hypocrisy!
F*cking reverse Robin Hood.
What they are in it for is making a populous desperate, afraid, and easier to control.
This is not the Government's money, it's the working American's money.