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Medicaid Murder
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Someone over 65 or permanently disabled would have medicare, not medicaid. That sepparation allows all the boomers to support medicaid cuts and only fuck up other people's lives.
Medicare doesn’t really cover assisted living afaik, though Medicaid can cover parts of it. Old folks who run out of money can often become “dual eligible” for both programs. A quick search suggests that almost two thirds of people in long term care are reliant on Medicaid.
When you say "run out of money" you aren't kidding either, you need to be truly indigent for this to kick in. The system is designed to completely strip mine the elderly of all their assets.
Yeah, I had a relative with alzheimers who had to sell her house, and pretty much everything she owned, in order to be eligible for medicaid so she could afford the assisted living home. Pretty fucked.
I wouldn't do it. I'd buy one of those no background check guns you have and make sure my kids have something to inherit when I'm gone
Can confirm. I work in end of life healthcare.
My wife is 40, been fully and permanently disabled for years and gets both Medicare and Medicaid because of it. It's called a Dual Advantage plan out here I think?
This is mostly correct. Although, some people have dual eligibility.
Most of them rely on both
That'll last for a couple of months, maybe a year. And then the Republicans will come for medicaid too. If they get away with gutting Medicare, what makes you think they won't do the same to medicaid?
The Republicans will come for it and their base will vote for their own demise.