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The GOP has quietly introduced a bill to gut Medicare.
"As the entire nation is focused on the Trump administration’s abhorrent treatment of minority children at the border, Republicans in Congress just quietly passed a bill through committee that will substantially affect seniors."
Have you or do you support NRLN which is a site which supports retirees with direct contact to the idiots in Washington which do not care about the population.
They are a watch dog site.I get emails from them on issues with form letters being sent to our representatives signed by me.They have an influence on policies in Congress.
If they pass it they will turn over the apple cart for the country. That surely will be the last straw for many. Hope these Republicans give this plenty of thought. This has Ryans fingerprints all over it. He is a worm who has been trying to get this passed for years. I guess he thinks this is going to be his contribution on his way out the door. He can run but can’t hide from the public.
The GOP has quietly introduced a bill to gut Medicare.
"As the entire nation is focused on the Trump administration’s abhorrent treatment of minority children at the border, Republicans in Congress just quietly passed a bill through committee that will substantially affect seniors."
[URL="http://washingtonsource.org/breaking-gop-quietly-sends-bill-to-gut-social-security-medicare-medicaid-by-2-trillion/"]BREAKING: GOP Quietly Sends Bill To Gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid By $2 Trillion[/URL]
I hope there is a lot of room in hades for the entire GOP party.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving group. Just like when those gold coin companies on TV and so on fleece the elderly, the US gov does the same to them. They voted the GOP in, which will let them have their gold and silver coins complete with a real estate flipping book.
I support the GOP but this will not attract new voters and instead let many walk away from that party at a time where the GOP aid desperate for voters given the demographic changes in this country.
I've worked in some LTC/Rehab facilities and I can attest to some of the wastage that goes on there with both Medicare and Medicaid, and I wouldn't be opposed to some of those cuts.
A Medicare patient is allowed a 100 day stay, so what's the rush in getting that patient thru Rehab?
A Medicare patient is homeless, he has gotten to enjoy having a roof over his head for 100 days, 3 meals a day, so the 99th day comes up and he deliberately falls, injuring himself, off to the Hospital he goes, then returns for another 100 days, and if permanently disabled, he converts to Medicaid.
Walk thru a Vent-trac unit in one of these skilled nursing facilities, with respiratory patients hooked up to a variety of tubes and electronic equipment, no chance of them ever becoming functional again, and how would you classify this?
I've had a number of patients, over the years, who wished they were dead, but a patient dares not utter those words to a nurse and then be subjected to the Legal 2000 clause, a patient is a threat to himself, so nurse is obligated to send that person to a Psych Ward to knock some sense into that person, whether that person is 70, 80, or 90.
Canada has gone with a National Physicians Assisted Suicide Law, and think of all the suffering that could be avoided if we did likewise. And a liberalized version as well, as with the current laws in OR/WA/CA you need be terminally ill to qualify. And don't think it's the religious crowd that's opposed to it, as job losses are at stake.
I've worked in some LTC/Rehab facilities and I can attest to some of the wastage that goes on there with both Medicare and Medicaid, and I wouldn't be opposed to some of those cuts.
A Medicare patient is allowed a 100 day stay, so what's the rush in getting that patient thru Rehab?
A Medicare patient is homeless, he has gotten to enjoy having a roof over his head for 100 days, 3 meals a day, so the 99th day comes up and he deliberately falls, injuring himself, off to the Hospital he goes, then returns for another 100 days, and if permanently disabled, he converts to Medicaid.
Walk thru a Vent-trac unit in one of these skilled nursing facilities, with respiratory patients hooked up to a variety of tubes and electronic equipment, no chance of them ever becoming functional again, and how would you classify this?
I've had a number of patients, over the years, who wished they were dead, but a patient dares not utter those words to a nurse and then be subjected to the Legal 2000 clause, a patient is a threat to himself, so nurse is obligated to send that person to a Psych Ward to knock some sense into that person, whether that person is 70, 80, or 90.
Canada has gone with a National Physicians Assisted Suicide Law, and think of all the suffering that could be avoided if we did likewise. And a liberalized version as well, as with the current laws in OR/WA/CA you need be terminally ill to qualify. And don't think it's the religious crowd that's opposed to it, as job losses are at stake.
The problem is that only some abuse it. It would be cheaper to find them housing.
If you or a loved one ever has a catastrophic illness and it's cut you will regret it.
Plus the government wastes a lot of money too. They change laws to make things harder for patients who legitimacy need pain meds. They now have to visit the doctor every 2 months and have to go to the pharmacy on the day they are finished with their meds, instead of common sense rules like if an elderly person get the meds only thru the insurance plan and is on the lowest dose of Vicodin they still think of them as a drug addict. The government just changed the rules making it next to impossible to crack down on Pharmaceutical companies that are supplying hillbilly heroin.
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. Credibility lost out of the gate, lol
