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Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Washington — Health care for the nation’s poor, once viewed as especially vulnerable in this era of budget cutting, has emerged as a surprisingly secure government entitlement with as much political clout as the Medicare and Social Security retirement programs. Even as President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans gear up for a new budget battle, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which together provide coverage to more than 1 in 5 Americans over the course of a year, appear off limits despite their huge price tag. The president protected Medicaid in 2011 when Congress and the White House slashed $1.2 trillion ...
Great just great. Obama spending our money to buy votes.
$265 billion spent on Medicaid
No mention of how this is paid for. What is the funding source.
Taking $265 billion and redistributing to others
At least SS and Medicare are funding by payroll taxes and we can improve that to sustain them
Wait until people who worked hard all their life see their Medicare benefits cut to support indigent loafers and breeders. Something wrong here. Pretty soon we'll be a nation of people waiting for their government check and medical bennies while sitting in a casino happily puffing away. If we're not already.
MEDICAID etal would be OK IF IT WERE TEMPORARY. It is just wrong and irresponsible to expect coverage and free care year after year, even for "poor" elderly who move into nursing homes for years. Options must be available: Dormitory low-income senior housing as an alternative. For those who are not yet senior, there is low-income senior housing for those who have some income. Often these are efficiency SMALL apartments for about $400 a month, subsidized by you-know-who. So if you can't even do $400 a month, you should get on the waiting list for a dorm room and common kitchen for $200 a month. That's much less than $5,000 a month per for "nursing" homes.
So we need to "adopt" 15 million illegals who won't get SS and ACA won't cover so we can give them medicaid? Jack those numbers up, double the cost.
Doogie: You got it. But as history has shown us for those who bother to consider it, when "the people" see their EARNED benefits cut, no one will listen to them. Many of our seniors are cold, hungry and without medicine while we dish it out to illegals and anchor babies. O. wants more of this and prioritizes dumping our money down the drains. He's looking for bigger drains.
A huge influx of third world immigrants is the obvious solution.
Future: the politicos "pay" for medicaid by lumping the program with Medicare and SS--thus the "conclusion" that "entitlements" must be cut. So let's CUT MEDICAID and leave SS / Medicare solvent after dealing with fraud, waste, abuse, stupidity, layers of administrative costs.