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In reply to the discussion: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE: American Health Care Act [View all]stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)First by capping it off in 2026, Ryan is able to keep the Baby Boomers out of nursing homes and on their kids couch or in the streets.
Problem solved providing for that Baby Boomers('Dirty Hippies" surge who the GOP always cites as sooo burdensome on the safety net.
Then every subsequent generation. Everybody gets old, nursing home costs are already prohibitive as is long term care insurance for most. Nursing Homes are what what Medicaid primarily does and, like medicare and social sec, part of our social contract and one of the costs our taxes have always been supposed to be paying for.
I wish Dems and MSM would emphasize that Medicaid primarily goes to paying for nursing home care for grandma & grandpa...average earners and taxpayers all their lives who simply do not have the wealth to pay hundreds of thousands for nursing homes at the end of their lives.
This GOP Bill is not just hundreds of billions of tax breaks to the wealthiest, it is also a sentence of essentially violent death to everyone but the wealthiest 1%. And, who knows, sometimes billionaires loose all their money, so even they might end of a victim of this brutal, sadistic attack and basically the agenda to destroy Medicaid.