Pee In A Cup For Your Medicare? Now I Have Heard It All.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Ring of Fire recently posted a maddening report about drug testing people receiving government benefits. Matt Bevin, a Kentucky GOP politician, has suggested that people on Medicaid and seniors on Medicare should be drug tested. And he has doubled down on his assertion and refuses to back down. Every day a new idiotic remark is made by some GOP politician.

For one Medicare is an earned paid for over a lifetime of work benefit. It is not welfare as GOPPERS claim. You get so mad you just want to take whip to these bastards.

So I guess after I lost my foot some GOP prick would want me or others like me to pee in a cup before we get our prosthetic. Or maybe the hospital can test you before you get your pacemaker. Or perhaps seniors getting their Social Security check will have to pee in a cup before their check is sent.

[Cassiopeia]

1. Right after these politicians submit to daily urine and breathe tests.

I'm sure may would be out of a job day one.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. There will be blood in the streets if they get this passed.

Us Seniors will not stand for it.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. You have no idea how much I want to see Congresscritters pee in cups and...

do breathalyzers before every session, every committee meeting and damn near every morning they wake up.

Absolutely useless assholes most of them, and if they can't do the job they were elected for, at least prove they're stupid and lazy, not stoned or drunk.

[LuvNewcastle]

12. Hell, everybody knows that the guy who is

still the Speaker of the House is a drunk. Third in line to the Presidency. I'm sure there's also plenty of coke and painkillers in Washington. We could probably get rid of several by requiring a common sobriety test before they go to session.

[Skittles]

4. CAN WE DRUG TEST THE GOP PLEASE

YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE WHO ALLOW THE BIGGEST TERRORIST ATTACK IN AMERICAN HISTORY, START SENSELESS WARS, CRASH THE ECONOMY, CONDUCT PARTISAN BULLSHIT HEARINGS, ETC.

THEY ARE THE ONES COSTING US MONEY.

[ryan_cats]

5. Great idea!

Great idea! Awesome.

Let's test people for drugs before we get them rehab, unless they fail the test then too bad.

[HeiressofBickworth]

6. Another one of their plans to stop Medicare

I'm sure they would find a large percentage of people on Medicare who also take drugs (medicine). Some take drugs for pain and chronic pain, others take drugs for a variety of other health issues, any one of which can produce false-positives for illicit drugs. But you can see where this is going: a secret list of drugs and imperfect test results means NO MEDICARE FOR YOU! This is just a variation of the "pre-existing condition" game of the insurance companies to avoid paying benefits. It worked so well for them, the Pubs are looking at this as a way of chipping away at Medicare.

On the one hand, I'm somewhat impressed at the time, energy and inventiveness Republicans use to cheat. Voting rights, health care, election results, bribery, etc. On the other hand, it dismays me that the energy it takes to be such assholes isn't spent on actually doing something for the benefit of the country as a whole and not just their 1% supporters.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. They remind me of some boys I used to know back in junior high...

These boys never studied for tests. Rather, they figured out elaborate ways to cheat.

It seemed to me that if they had spent half as much time studying instead of trying to cheat, they would have done much better. But no. Their inventiveness reminds me of the same quality in the Republicans of today. They wasted so much energy on fruitless pursuits.

[olddots]

9. there is big bucks in drug testing

Chances are the testers are making lots of money .

[Peace Patriot]

10. All of us seniors (multi-millions of us) could send our urine to...

Mr. Bevin.

This would be one helluva fun protest to organize!

[kelliekat44]

11. Actually, I like this idea.

WTF we pay for our Medicare!

[B Calm]

13. Wait, politicians are employees and we are the employer.

[Vinca]

14. Once again a Republican is too stupid to know his base: old people.

[TheMastersNemesis]

15. I Know A Lot Of Seniors Who Would Still Vote GOP Anyway.

Any Senior who supports a GOPPER should be in a nursing home. They are too demented to be on their own. A lot of older people are so racist and bigoted they will never vote for the Dem even if you told them you are stopping their checks.