What Would Granny Do With a Voucher?

[Playinghardball]

I have many friends and acquaintances who have children with learning disabilities (autism, asberger's, TBI's, etc.) that will keep them from ever holding meaningful employment. As it happens, most of these parents lean far to the right. They've spent years getting their children the medical help and daily living assistance that they need. As these children grow into adults, each and every one of their parents have applied for and received Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid for them. You can see the fear in their eyes when they talk about their children outliving them, hoping that their needs will continue to be met and that they will live safe productive lives and not go hungry.

What do these people think will happen to their children when they are gone and their children have a voucher? Do they think that their children will make wise decisions as to which insurance carrier to select? Do they think that no one will take advantage of their vulnerabilities?

And what of people who are not yet 55 years old but will eventually be eligible for the new voucher system that Romney/Ryan are pushing. We worry that Grandma can't figure out how take her medications or that Grandpa can't remember his children's names. Do we really think that for the last 20 to 40 years of their lives that they're going to make the right choice as to which health insurance they're going to buy with that voucher? Do we really think that one day some con artist isn't going to call them on the phone with a "great deal that's going to save them money and is perfect for the voucher system" and run off thousands of those $7,000 vouchers before anyone realizes that it paid for nothing more than a letter on fancy stationary from a PO Box?

Yes, SS and Medicare are in trouble. Yes, there's government waste and even fraud, but even with that our vulnerable citizens get healthcare. Will they still get healthcare if someone cons them out of their voucher?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/27/1124694/-What-Would-Granny-Do-With-a-Voucher

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1. buy catfood

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Romney/Ryan says Granny should wait for Double Coupon Day at the hospital!!!!!

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[flamingdem]

3. Coupons for cancer in your local Sunday paper

Get two radiation treatments for the price of one!

[HopeHoops]

5. * Some restrictions apply.

[HopeHoops]

4. Use it as toilet paper - that's about what it's worth.

[Jennicut]

6. I love how some of those right wingers use every government program

available to them to help their children and yet still vote Republican. I have subbed in schools as a para for kids with disabilities in public schools and many get one on one assistance. Where do these parents think the money is coming from to help their kids? To pay for paraprofessionals to be one on one with their children and for special education teachers? It blows my mind sometimes.