Killing Medicaid is about Killing

Vice-President Joe Biden, managing Obama's killer


budget cut negotiations with Congress, has declared,

"Everything--including entitlements (Medicare and Social

Security)--is on the table." But in fact, the uprising by

citizens at Town Halls over threats to cut Social Security and

Medicare, has made cuts in Medicaid the Obama gang's opening

focus--the "backdoor" approach to mass killing of the elderly,

because they calculate it's not as politically explosive.

Many Americans think Medicaid is a program for poor people,

while they consider Social Security and Medicare as programs

which provide retirement income and health benefits to workers

which workers themselves pay a tax for every payday. The truth

is, while 77% of the 58 million people enrolled in Medicaid are

children and families, and only 23% are elderly or disabled, in

fact, 64% of the money Medicaid spends is spent on older and

disabled people. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 7 of

every 10 nursing home residents are on Medicaid, because

middle-class patients can quickly use up their savings at nursing

homes which charge $5,000-7,000 per month. Then, they need

Medicaid to stay there.

The "block grant" mechanism is proposed as the way to cut

Medicaid--once the allotted money is spent, treatment is over.

The state can decide how its block grant is spent--it could

exclude certain life-saving procedures, like organ transplants,

as was done in Arizona. A modern twist to the Hitlerian idea:

once the block grant, the pittance allotted after the Federal

government bails out the banks has been used up, your life is

"unworthy to be lived." As Lyndon LaRouche said today, "Let the

banks die--we can create new banks anytime!"

In Florida's "pilot program" to reduce Medicaid spending,

the program is being turned over to HMOs to manage the care "more

efficiently." Florida's proposed new Medicaid law "requires that

HMO organizations be paid less for each patient than what the

state has paying under the "fee for service" system"--where, if a

doctor prescribes treatment, the state must pay for it.

The House Republican budget plan would throw as many as 44

million low-income adults and children out of Medicaid over the

next 10 years and likely leave them with no health care coverage,

according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. [agg]