Originally published at: The Cost Of Medicaid Cuts For Elderly Americans - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Republicans in Congress intend to cut about $880 billion in federal health care spending. One of their primary targets is Medicaid. That government program covers 82 million Americans with health insurance. Most of the people enrolled…
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The MAGA moral test:
“The moral test of government is how that government 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.” ― Hubert H. Humphrey
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“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
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It’s only been a matter of time before the conservative section of the ruling class – and maybe not them alone – decided to step up the pace of elderly deaths. From an economic point of view, the large generation of Boomers has reached an age where their unproductiveness (as a group) has become a drag on the economy. American capitalists as a class are cheap – check the infrastructure – so it’s not unexpected that there’s a section of it who see the elderly, especially the poorer half, as significant overhead whose end days can’t be encouraged along fast enough.
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The analysis failed to enumerate what percentage of Medicaid recipients over 65 voted MAGA.
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This article really does miss the forest for the trees and continues the pattern of chasing shiny object instead of discussing the real issues presented.
The real issue is the taking away healthcare from 10,000,000 American citizens to give billions dollars to a few billionaires through work requirements most Medicaid recipients who can already meet but will still lose their healthcare because of arbitrary red tape. That is the work requirement is a false flag intended to hide through racial and other prejudice the giving of billions of dollars to those who already have too much at the expense of everyone else.
That is the bill we are discussing is all about giving billions to billionaires. Giving billions to billionaires is very unpopular but we are allowing that to be deflected through demonization of the poor.
That is the entire purpose of what Trump and Republicans are doing is to reallocate wealth from everyone else to the top 1/10 of 1%. The Medicaid cuts are little more than a false flag to change the subject from the those who already have to much getting more to demonizing and scapegoating the poor and minorities.
In regard to our current politics, America is where it is because wealthy elites weaponized White grievance to gain power and then used that power to enrich themselves at the very expense of those who gave them that power all the time continuing to scapegoat the poor and minorities. Until the rise of Donald Trump it may have been possible to deny this with a straight face but Trump is once gain president.
This long and for most the boring discussion of the cost of cutting Medicaid for 10,000,000 American citizens aside from taking seriously the work requirements that most already meet but will result in 10,000,000 losing coverage anyway through red tape is itself harmful.
But ignoring the entire purpose of the taking away healthcare from 10,000,000 American citizens to give huge tax breaks to 100 billionaires, some of who are NOT American citizens, is why Democrats lose elections.
That is discussing the part Republicans want to talk about, demonizing the poor, while leaving alone the part they don’t want to talk about, taking away healthcare from 10,000,000 American citizens so billionaires can have more billions to billionaire, is a proven losing strategy.
Instead, we need to be discussing the entire bill and especially its very purpose, giving billions to billionaires at the expense of everyone else.
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The conservative ruling power elite is culling America.
Those with this Ayn Randian worldview give not a fig for anyone less fortunate. Indeed, they have a contempt for such persons.