created by Bazryel on 10/03/2025 at 16:02 UTC
253 upvotes, 21 top-level comments (showing 21)
Comment by dumbanfun at 10/03/2025 at 17:01 UTC
1 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Don’t forget. To qualify for nursing home benefits under Medicaid you basically have to exhaust all your assets except for your primary home if you own it ouright. Once you have no more than 5k it kicks in and you’re placed into a Medicaid bed if the facility has one.
This is a great way to funnel any remaining assets away from the recipient and ultimately the heirs…because what child is going to force their parent into a Medicaid bed without first using the proceeds from the sale of the family home to augment their nursing home expenses
Reduced level of resources and care will lead to shorter lifespan and time spent on the taxpayers dime.
The system is horrible and was before any of this Trump shit started, however this really goes to show that it’s a race to the bottom for these despicable pieces of shit
Comment by c0smicgirly at 10/03/2025 at 16:14 UTC
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This is what rural Missouri, by a large percent, wanted and this is what they’re going to get. Glad to see they will get what they voted for, it was quite clear this was coming.
For the rest of us that didn’t vote for this (including Blue dots in rural MO), it’s a shame we will have to suffer these consequences with them.
Comment by MosesBeachHair at 10/03/2025 at 17:04 UTC
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The ramifications of this will be horrible.
1. Those not on Medicaid will see increased prices for nursing homes.
2. Families will have to decide to go bankrupt or bring their loved one with dementia home.
3. Families that bring their loved one living with dementia home will need to find care, leave their jobs, or leave someone with dementia home alone.
Additionally, many people using home care also use Medicaid, so they will have to think through the same options.
Paying for this type of care helps the economy and helps people. It is a win-win, but the GOP seems to be pennywise and dollar foolish.
Comment by Rigorous-Geek-2916 at 10/03/2025 at 16:17 UTC
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“Pro-life party”
Fuck the GOP
Comment by canada432 at 10/03/2025 at 17:33 UTC
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Missouri went for Trump by 18 points. They've had a republican supermajority since 2012. Rural voters were even more overwhelmingly for Trump and the GOP, some places well over 80%. The same is true of elderly voters, they went heavily for Trump here, rural elderly voters even more so. Yes, people are going to die, and most of the people going to die voted to kill themselves. I feel bad for the ones who didn't. For the ones who did I hope they hurry up.
Comment by NuChallengerAppears at 10/03/2025 at 16:13 UTC
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This is a feature, not a bug. - Republicans.
Comment by skidmarkschu at 10/03/2025 at 17:54 UTC
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“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”
Comment by Boss_Glass at 10/03/2025 at 16:57 UTC
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Work in LTC and can confirm I am seriously worried about what will happen
Comment by EZ-PEAS at 10/03/2025 at 17:35 UTC*
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The house just passed a funding bill that requires cutting both Medicare and Medicaid and right now it's in front of the senate.
Whether you're liberal or conservative, if you don't want these cuts you need to get on the phone **TODAY** and call/email both Hawley and Schmitt's offices and tell them you don't support the targeted $880 billion in budget cuts and you'd rather pass a CLEAN continuing resolution (no changes from status quo) or shut down the government before accepting cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
Eric Schmitt: https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/contact/
Josh Hawley: https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley/[1] (scroll to the bottom of the page for offices and phone numbers)
1: https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley/
The House has just introduced but not voted on a continuing resolution that is not a CLEAN continuing resolution, it cuts non-defense spending while adding more defense spending and funding for ICE. You can also call/email your representative and tell them you only support a CLEAN continuing resolution (not what's been introduced in the House) that doesn't set reduction targets without specifically protecting Medicare and Medicaid. (And VA Healthcare, and whatever else you happen to care about.)
Comment by forrestfaun at 10/03/2025 at 16:41 UTC
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But why would a collection of billionaires care? And congress will let them do it because they are being paid off by lobbyists. The whole 'drain the swamp' really meant, 'give money only to the GOP.'
Comment by MobileBus48 at 10/03/2025 at 16:29 UTC
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We already established old people dying for the sake of the economy and/or convenience was okay.
Comment by West_Street402 at 10/03/2025 at 17:56 UTC
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Death panels indeed
Comment by Confident_Drummer467 at 10/03/2025 at 16:29 UTC
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Am I the only one who thinks this is what they want. They consider older people useless eaters. I am old.
Comment by KeithGribblesheimer at 10/03/2025 at 17:35 UTC
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In addition, many bedbound seniors receive home care through Medicaid. It's much less expensive than a nursing home and let's them stay in their house.
That's going to go, too.
Comment by bogehiemer at 10/03/2025 at 18:22 UTC
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All thanks to Missouri conservatives.
Comment by flygirlsworld at 10/03/2025 at 19:30 UTC
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Thats a risk the goofy ass Missouri voters are willing to take…..
Comment by Lunchinator at 10/03/2025 at 16:48 UTC
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What happens when a bunch of gun toting folks are made desperate with no viable way out?
Comment by PutinBoomedMe at 10/03/2025 at 19:21 UTC
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The bright red counties in northern Missouri and southeast Missouri are about to get dick slapped with their vote. These miserable hateful people voted for this not realizing they were risking putting their parents and siblings at high risk. As soon as the people have to start picking up the slack they will somehow blame "Joe and the hoe".
Get fucked MAGAts. I hate to be so mean but I truly hope the stove burns the fuck out of their greasy and slimy hands
Comment by zanylanie at 10/03/2025 at 19:21 UTC
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This will be a particularly bad outcome of the cuts, but it will be more pervasive than this, too. I work for the IL agency that administers Medicaid. My sister is a doctor over there. I was telling her about the proposed cuts, and she said if they go through, our healthcare system will “implode.”
Comment by martlet1 at 10/03/2025 at 16:24 UTC
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Does anyone read the articles on these click bait bullshit stories? These homes closed before Trump became president.
The budget is still super far away from making ANY cuts to Medicaid.
The old cuts have been in place since 2017 and go over a 10 year period. The word Medicaid isn’t even in the new bill they are talking about for cuts. It’s part of a bigger 880 BILLION dollar government reduction.
Comment by Whole-Gate6920 at 10/03/2025 at 16:49 UTC
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People will die if Medicaid is not cut. Facts.