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Understanding Medicaid and Medicare and Proposed Changes

Understanding Medicaid and Medicare and Proposed Changes

by MichelleMcHatton

The below document is something I received from The Arc of Massachusetts. Although it mainly discusses Medicaid and Medicare in Massachusetts, in general, it applies to anyone who receives these benefits no matter where you live in the country.

I thought it may be helpful for others to read and to understand the difference between the two programs and to encourage you, if you haven’t already, to contact your congressional representatives and speak out about any possible changes or cuts that they may want to make.

As an addendum: If Congress passes their shit “bill” that will in effect make drastic changes to Medicare and Medicaid and you become someone who is now responsible for your relative who has been forced to leave a nursing home due to the cuts, here is what you will need to do:

Save any receipts/bills for costs you may incur due to needing to have a relative move in with you (i.e., anything from building a space for them to live to PCA care, costs of medical equipment, medicine, etc.). Seriously. Because what you will need to do with all those bills/receipts is to send them to CONGRESS AND SHITHOLE. And you will need to DEMAND they pay them. Because THEY are the ones who will have created this burden for you. The burden that you will now be forced to figure out how to pay for, when you yourself more than likely are on Medicare or Medicaid and/or have a limited budget. THEY will be the ones responsible for paying for it. NOT YOU. This will be THEIR mess. ALL OF THEM! This is what I plan to do. And if I get questioned regarding the payments, I will tell them it’s in the hands of CONGRESS AND SHITHOLE. YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT THEM! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO WILL BE PAYING FOR IT, SINCE THEY TOOK AWAY THE VERY THING THAT WAS PAYING FOR IT AND I DON’T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT!

Because WE are not billionaires. THEY are. And if THEY are going to get MORE MONEY from taking things away from most of America, THEY can afford to pay our expenses. Shit, most of them could afford to support every living person in the United States and STILL have money left over. DIPSHIT alone could do that!

Medicaid-Fact-Sheet-February-2025-updateDownload
Understanding Medicaid and Medicare and Proposed Changes

Understanding Medicaid and Medicare and Proposed Changes

by MichelleMcHatton

The below document is something I received from The Arc of Massachusetts. Although it mainly discusses Medicaid and Medicare in Massachusetts, in general, it applies to anyone who receives these benefits no matter where you live in the country.

I thought it may be helpful for others to read and to understand the difference between the two programs and to encourage you, if you haven’t already, to contact your congressional representatives and speak out about any possible changes or cuts that they may want to make.

As an addendum: If Congress passes their shit “bill” that will in effect make drastic changes to Medicare and Medicaid and you become someone who is now responsible for your relative who has been forced to leave a nursing home due to the cuts, here is what you will need to do:

Save any receipts/bills for costs you may incur due to needing to have a relative move in with you (i.e., anything from building a space for them to live to PCA care, costs of medical equipment, medicine, etc.). Seriously. Because what you will need to do with all those bills/receipts is to send them to CONGRESS AND SHITHOLE. And you will need to DEMAND they pay them. Because THEY are the ones who will have created this burden for you. The burden that you will now be forced to figure out how to pay for, when you yourself more than likely are on Medicare or Medicaid and/or have a limited budget. THEY will be the ones responsible for paying for it. NOT YOU. This will be THEIR mess. ALL OF THEM! This is what I plan to do. And if I get questioned regarding the payments, I will tell them it’s in the hands of CONGRESS AND SHITHOLE. YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT THEM! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO WILL BE PAYING FOR IT, SINCE THEY TOOK AWAY THE VERY THING THAT WAS PAYING FOR IT AND I DON’T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT!

Because WE are not billionaires. THEY are. And if THEY are going to get MORE MONEY from taking things away from most of America, THEY can afford to pay our expenses. Shit, most of them could afford to support every living person in the United States and STILL have money left over. DIPSHIT alone could do that!

Medicaid-Fact-Sheet-February-2025-updateDownload
Defer THIS!

Defer THIS!

by MichelleMcHatton

So SHITHOLE thinks that all the employers are going to be deferring your taxes from your paychecks starting next week.  And all the money they’re supposedly going to defer is going to help the economy.  Because you’ll have so much more money in your paycheck.  That you’ll have to pay back in April 2021.  Oh, unless SHITHOLE is re-elected.  Because he’s blackmailing and threatening America. And he’s extremely desperate. Because he knows his ass is going to end up in jail.

Boy, is SHITHOLE going to have a rude awakening.

The IRS just issued their “guidelines” about this fiasco on Friday.  They expect it to go into effect on Tuesday.  No employer will have any of this ready to go by then.  Even if they were going to do it.  Which the majority aren’t.  Because they can’t.

If for some reason your employer decides they are going to defer your taxes (meaning your Social Security and Medicare tax), here’s an example, cited from CNBC, of what that will mean:

For instance, a worker earning $50,000 per year would be able to pocket $119 per paycheck if Social Security taxes were deferred – a total of $1,073 over nine pay periods, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

However, all of that money would be due to the IRS in 2021.

In other words, although that extra money you may see may be nice, don’t plan on spending it.  You’ll have to save it in order to pay it back the following year.

Asinine, isn’t it?  Then again, so is SHITHOLE and his entire “administration”.