Red voters think they are reducing the welfare state by voting against Medicaid. Medicaid is relevant to every middle class American who may need a facility to care for them at the end of life.
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MIL 90 yrs old never worked enough outside the home so qualifies for medicaid & no medicare premium comes out of her small SS check. She gets $500 a month which is half of her 92 yr old husband's. He started getting a check from the VA a few years ago for his non military ailments may now loose it.
The red states are going to start feeling the pain of what they voted for. I personally am going to enjoy it. I'm from a blue state that receives a very small portion of Fed dollars. Blue states are currently working on "keeping" our funds, since the Fed is trying to deny paying anything out.
I really don't think they do. I use my MAGA mom as my example. She thinks Medicaid is only free care for poor people. At the same time she grumps about how seniors are mistreated. We have an entire generation that is going to die in horrible loneliness and pain. It's going to be so bad.
It doesn't have to wait. Most of the red states have a higher poverty rate than the blue states.
White or Black families depend on medicaid as their only source of healthcare.
True. Unless you either have LTC insurance, which is very expensive, or are very rich and can afford to private pay, Medicaid pays for your nursing home stay.
Some local pol needs to get one of those trucks with a sound system and drive it thru every red state. When the trumpers are looking for care for old sick Meemaw and Peapaw there will be no option but to put them in the spare room
Medicaid is the payor of last resort. If they do pay for end of life care and you own a home, they put a lien on the property to cover their interests. Many times they recoup all costs.
Oh this is just awful for so many people at a time when they are already hurting and vulnerable.
My mom works at an assisted living facility that is not as dependent on Medicaid as others. If funding were to be cut they have estimated that they would be able to last 45 days until they would be forced to shut down.
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Stupid finds ignorance more comforting than dealing with reality.
They won't have to worry about nursing homes. They're going to die young.
If she lived with me rather than in a care facility, I would be divorced and probably dead.
White or Black families depend on medicaid as their only source of healthcare.
Death of the last boomers
Oh this is just awful for so many people at a time when they are already hurting and vulnerable.