What if all of that sounds great in theory, but greedy labor unions, shady businesses set up to fleece the system, and gibsmedat fraudster benefit-grabbers screw it up into a giant taxpayer-fleecing boondoggle?
Think that might be the outcome?
Of, just maybe, what if people worked during their younger years to earn money to all of that stuff for themselves? That would work, too? Oh, and it's what made this country the greatest on the planet!
What if we could find another bull**it excuse to grow government even more?
I'll bet they'll even read your mail, and fill out your absentee ballot for you.
This is nothing new. Bad research on the part of the reporter. Home and community based waivers to a state’s Medicaid program have been around since the 80s, and they benefit populations way larger than the dual population.
It actually IS a good idea - a walk-in bathtub and rails might keep someone out of a nursing home, or prevent them from breaking a hip, which, after a certain age, is what amounts to a death sentence with the remainder of your life being awful AND expensive - but I have full and complete confidence that this will be bloated and cost-overrun to stratospheric levels by government involvement.
I was amazed at how many good and not terribly expensive ideas were incorporated into my FIL’s retirement community home. I plan on being a DIP (Die In Place) when I retire, so I’ll be doing some of these things in my home before I get too old to do them! Incredibly, my grandfather, possibly the smartest person I ever met, did this for himself 40 years ago and he had to make a lot of the fixtures - a man before his time.
Three reasons to put a stake in this:
Phantom savings never materialize;
spending always exceeds estimates;
programs always expand.
Fine. This is all we need on top of all our other financial demands: paying for everybody else's home repairs.