...The policies in the House GOP budget, if enacted, would begin affecting millions of seniors almost immediately by increasing their costs for prescription drugs and probably long-term care. Further, Medicare costs could rise over time if healthier seniors choose to abandon the traditional benefit program....
...Some 9 million seniors qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits, and about two-thirds of all nursing-home residents are covered by Medicaid. The GOP budget proposes cutting some $744 billion from Medicaid over 10 years by turning the system into block grants that limit federal contributions and give states more choice in structuring benefits. No one knows exactly which Medicaid services states would choose to cut back, but senior citizens account for a disproportionate share of Medicaid outlays and would almost certainly bear some of the burden....
So if you want to live in you son or daughter's basement when there is no Medicare, you'd better not vote for anyone who supported the Paul Ryan kill Medicare plan. However, if your elderly parents are in a nursing home now, an immediate destruction of Medicare will put an unfair burden on you as you struggle to have a job and take care of your parents, grandparents, or elderly aunt/uncle just as they're thrown into the streets by the Republicans.
Is this our future with the Republican plan to kill Medicare?
(pic from RevRuth/myfairladyb)
