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.
Seems like the patients should run for office, judging by our current representatives
That’s pretty funny, but don’t give them ideas. The average US Senator is 64. Gerontacracy is probably at least a symptom of the problem. There should be representation for a wide range of ages. We have lawmakers regulating the internet, that do not natively use it.
Or the severely physically and mentally impaired, people caring for spouses, parents, siblings and children with disabilities, people who work full time hourly jobs and still depend medicaid, etc… maybe think before opening your fucking mouth Kellyanne.
They could be president of the United States!
You joke, but as the median age increases, we will see more of this.
The Russian Army is, apparently
Well, I guess that’s one way to address shortfalls in pension funds.
I want to believe the best in people, but it seems so bad I find it unlikely things like this are an error or even negligence. Surely by this point, in a boardroom, at least one person in the decision-making process has asked, “Have we tried just letting them die?”
Uhh… Walmart Greeter? 🤷♂️
Doesn’t Walmart train their employees on how to apply for SNAP benefits? I would imagine it’s not a huge leap to assume they don’t offer great health benefits too.
That would be a guaranteed code silver in about 5 minutes.
An active shooter? 🤨
Sorry, I meant “Silver Alert.” I am laughing so hard at my mistake right now.
I guess it could be a code silver if they were restocking guns and ammo when struck by a flashback.
Old person fell down
She’s still alive?
Apparently:
Stolen logo?
Huh. I didn’t notice. Now that I think about it, it does look like the GameCube logo.
