Anyone over 80 and anyone with a terminal illness get palliative and hospice care only. Anything more they can pay for themselves.
Cons; Would you throw your parents off Medicare? I would
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So Medicare isn't really spending much on your mother's care. Your proposal wouldn't save much in her situation.
I know dementia sucks, my mom had it at the very end of her life. It's really hard for family members.
So a 80 year old person, who was otherwise healthy, falls in the street and breaks their hip. An ambulance is called and I get there. What’s palliative? Pain meds? Transport? You understand that if we don’t fix their hip they may live another 10+ years confined to a bed. Is that really cheaper?
Taking a person who is otherwise healthy and denying them healthcare is something that happens in a country no civilized person should want to live in.
This is a good debate. Terminal people go to hospitals for no reason other than convenience. Nursing homes defy no treatment orders because they don’t want to deal with someone dying.
In case you're not aware, a fall and broken hip is frequently the beginning of the end for old people. They can fund anything beyond palliative and hospice care on their own.
The same middle class does not want to pay the taxes necessary to fund the government,
This sounds awfully “Huxley/Orwellian” to me. And maybe even a little native Americanish....
He's mad because she is selfishly spending his inheritance on herself.
Neither party has any interest in balancing a budget or spending less. They are full of shit.
Anyone that really wants to balance a budget means you need to increase revenue, so higher taxes. Which I am fine with. We need revenue for infrastructure.
Everytime GOP starts a war and cuts taxes, a baby cries
Anyone that really wants to balance a budget means you need to increase revenue, so higher taxes. Which I am fine with. We need revenue for infrastructure.
Everytime GOP starts a war and cuts taxes, a baby cries
yes it sucks and it makes you think differently about life.
Lol...there is no inheritance. I pray that she has enough to cover her care. She isnt dead, but she isnt living either.
So she spent it all and you're mad.
You don't get to decide who lives and who dies, Durwood.
It may be, in the sight of Heaven, that you are more insignificant and fit to live than MILLIONS of senior citizens.
Mama ran out of money for your inheritance, so now you want her to die.
Bingo!
Bill Clinton gave the GOP what they desired......and They couldn’t get Bill out of town soon enough and go back to “budget as usual” methods they so publicly decried.
Every time I see “ Durwood “ I burst out laughing. He changed his avatar…😄
Yeah, I guess I had forgotten that. $380/mo is $4,560. Still a bargain for a "senior".
I had been meaning to change it. I forgot that reference until you said it.
I’m up for taxes to go slightly up on certain individuals but also we need to cut other items to achieve this. I’m sure there is plenty of government spending to cut if we look hard enough
In addition to the “contributions” many of us have been making for 40 years or more…
Wanting something new with the assumption that the added cost will be carried by someone else...
We have a progressive tax system lol, of course any added cost or current cost is carried by someone else. Also did you not see the cut spending part of my comment?
I did notice that,.. Are you expecting those spending cuts to negatively affect your finances in any fashion?
Depends where they come from. If it’s from defense then doubtful. From the CBO and JCT it states that it would add to the budget deficit by $155 billion from 2026-2031 if we lowered that to 60 years old So it seems like it is totally doable to cut spending in areas and raise taxes a little bit if need be. For example, we just had an accounting error on an Ukraine package of $6 billion haha. I think if we are having small accounting errors of $6 billion then this is easily doable.
To add, we have already sent $75 million to Ukraine with a snap of the finger lol.
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