Yes, let's return to the health care debate. Mr. Cohen accurately points out the realities of the status quo. This is the GOP position. They want to roll health care reform back to where it was in 2009, The Status Quo. Babies don't reach their 1st birthday. Don't get asthma, diabetes, or kidney disease because your chances of recovery are much less than in rest of the world. Don't expect to live as long or as healthy as the rest of the "1st World." Let millions go without adequate health care until it's too little, too late. Allow wealth to determine health and well-being.
According to the GOP, a weak and struggling working class is just fine. They must think if we're a little hungry and something hurts, we'll work for less and be happy to take the crumbs from the rich man's table. According to the GOP, no reform is the best reform. According to the GOP, socialized medicine is only for Senators and Congressmen (including Mr. Boehner and his fellow in the Senate, Mr. McConnell).
If they have their way, the most important government employees of all, soldiers, would be cast adrift in the sea of private health care. "Thanks guys, your sacrifice means nothing to us after we've chewed you up and spit you out. We, after all, are the ones who gave you that chance for glory on the field of battle. You should thank us for the opportunity and then gratefully disappear."
Yes, let's return to the health care debate. Show us your answers. Show us your plan. You didn't like the Democratic Party's plan too much, especially after you filled it so full of shit that even Democrats almost helped you kill it for stinkin'. Can you guys even be serious about this? Do you really have a fatal case of Rampant Endemic Hypocrisy?
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This example is the GOP’s “One-Stop-Shop” for hypocrisy; the decimation of the middle class.
Cheney/Gregg's Deficit Reduction Act 2005 passed in RECONCILIATION, illegally with two different documents in the House and Senate, taxes the middle class elderly the total amount of their life savings if they need a nursing home. Most of these nursing homes are non-profit to boot, as it is in my parent's case.
In my parent's case this was a $600+ a day “tax” for 1.5 years before MassHealth (yes, Massachusetts) would consider their application. So my parents paid out their total life savings @ $600 a day to subsidize all the others in the nonprofit nursing home who are already on Medicaid.
This is the Cheney/Gregg's method of reduction of the deficit...off the back of W.W.II Disabled Vets (my parents) who remain alive long enough to need a nursing home, but too old to complain. If they passed away before they needed the nursing home their life savings would have been inherited tax free (less than 2M). No inheritance tax? They'll get your total assets when you enter a nursing home!
Now that their life savings has gone to the nonprofit and Medicaid has kicked in, my parents still have to pay the nonprofit their retirement income of $69,348 a year, as it should be!!!!!! …but only after Medicaid demands they continue to pay their Medicare and Federal Blue Cross insurance premiums of $5,505 a year. They have prescription coverage under their Medigap policy, but they still were forced to Medicare D.
Why wasn’t their retirement income of $69,348 (minus the premiums of $5,505 still required of them going to Medicare and Federal Blue Cross) enough for the nonprofit nursing home from the date of their admissions? Ask Cheney/Gregg.
Gregg says now… “We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses,” Gregg wrote in his letter to Obama this week. “Report after report also confirms that health care costs are a systemic risk to the long-term fiscal health of our nation.”
He apparently forgot about his Deficit Reduction Act 2005 he passed in reconciliation which does exactly this to the elderly needing nursing homes who have saved more than $2,000 in their lifetime and not hidden it.
Cheney/Gregg's DRA 2005 is the perfect example of how the GOP reduces the deficit off the backs of W.W.II Vets with a tax of $300+/day...the perfect storm of GOP, health care debate let them eat cake and GOP hypocrisy.
Medicare does not cover nursing homes. My parent’s life savings does. Watch Sen. Gregg "not" answer the hard questions about what he did here.
The Cheney/Gregg Deficit Reduction Act 2005, passed in reconciliation, is the largest case of Elder Middle-class W.W.II Disabled Vet Financial Abuse in History!!
Wake up all you elders who are on Medicare or Medicare Advantage and LOVE them. Cheney/Gregg are counting on you and your families to remain hapless while they take your life savings from you if you ever need long-term care.
The gentleman in the next room to my parents purchased long-term-care insurance to protect his assets. It turns out that this policy will not pay for his long-term care now (he was duped by the countless loopholes). So his and my parents’ life savings are paying for all the others in that nonprofit nursing home who hid their assets and/or are already on Medicaid.
Pay close attention to how the GOP will not address what they did to the elderly with the Deficit Reduction Act 2005 that passed in reconciliation. They counted on the elderly to be and remain ignorant until they are admitted into nonprofit nursing homes…
That's an amazing story. My Mom is in nursing care, but only pays rent. Her savings is part of her monthly income and is safely in the hands of a financial advisor (in addition to me).
My Mom did trade the equity in their house and a goodly portion of their estate for a life lease at the home, so I understand what you are saying.
Your case speaks to the need for solid financial counseling for folks who are entering the stage of life of our parents. You are also correct to point out that the GOP version of financial counseling is "give it all to us."
I just find it amazing that the GOP is so unconnected and unconcerned about folks in the middle class, the working poor, veterans, teachers, students, children, gays, persons of color, immigrants... you know 90 percent of the population. How in the Hell to they get away with anything!
They know how to control the money.
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