Spyke

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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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MoonMelonreply
lemmy.ml

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.

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

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.

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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?

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coyootjereply
lemmy.world

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?

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The Republicans will come for it and their base will vote for their own demise.

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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.

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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.

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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?"

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Ah yes, but the emergent properties of such a game yields really interesting patterns, such as a couple of fat singular blobs self-sustaining themselves, albeit by a constant stream of dots that have no purpose other than to expire

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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.

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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.

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