For those not so disposed as to be in on the meaning of this, Medicaid is far, far different from Medicare.
Medicare recipients are those Americans that have paid their 1.45% of their wages to their so-called ‘account’ whereas Medicaid recipients are largely welfare losers, illegal Mexicans, and other lowlifes who have likely never worked for a W-2 in their adult lives.
The same people who are likely collecting SSI....supplemental income (NOT SSDI where at least the leeches have worked 40 quarters). SSA administers SSI but the funds don’t come from our famed “lock box” but from the general fund; it is nonetheless administered by SSA. Together, SSI and SSDI amounts for TWENTY FIVE PERCENT of all SSA outlays.
Bottom line, they’re effing leeches, no good for nothing. The fact that there are more now collecting is why Obama won.
You have to be elderly to qualify for Medicare. If you happen to get poor before growing old, you go on Medicaid.
I wouldn’t deem them all leeches.
I think it’s a horror story that we have lowered our import taxes and outsourced our jobs overseas and we have this many poor now. This is a shame that stains the records of several administrations.
I know of a number of people who worked their entire life, then acquired a catastrophic illness and could not work. They then ran out of insurance money and retirement savings and had to go onto medicaid so they could live in a public nursing home until they died. Someday it may happen to you. Just as with any govt program, there are those in real need and then there are a bunch of others like illegal immigrants who are taking advantage of the system.
Actually LOTS of people on Medicaid do work ,although they don’t pay any federal income tax. They have opened the eligibility to the point where lots of low income earners now qualify.
if we kicked her out on the street, she could get much more money and many more benefits....thousands more in fact, because she probably would get housing, food stamps, utilities paid, etc...
Medicaid is used by lots of working parents to cover their young kids....if you have 5 kids and you work for $30,000 a yr, your kids are all on medicaid....
if we kicked her out on the street, she could get much more money and many more benefits....thousands more in fact, because she probably would get housing, food stamps, utilities paid, etc...
Medicaid is used by lots of working parents to cover their young kids....if you have 5 kids and you work for $30,000 a yr, your kids are all on medicaid....