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In reply to the discussion: More than 30,000 nursing home eviction notices to be sent in Louisiana Thursday... [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)this would be a tremendous inconvenience at very least for most. Many wouldn't have an extra ground-floor bedroom and have to turn someplace else into a bedroom for Uncle Harry.
Some relatives would be elderly themselves. Some will never have met their elderly, newly destitute and homeless relatives.
Others may not have a nonworking adult to care for those people who can't be left alone all day. 7:1, it'd be a woman who quit her job to become caretaker, along with removing an income from the family and its contributions to, among other things, their own future retirement needs.
I'm not heartless, but GOOD. Hope it happens there, now, and becomes a wake-up call. Because if we don't get control of congress 182 days from now, it will be happening not just there but other places too. The plan is ultimate dismantling of Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Btw, how's the plan to dismantle the VA coming? Many vets collect Medicaid so are slated for two major hits.
And did we all hear that it's really happening, our era's shameful version of WWII's Japanese internment: We will now be now tearing frightened children away from their parents at the border and interning them separately. This is an atrocity.