The Silence.

There is something that hasn’t been talked about… what will happen to those who are disabled and are on Medicaid and Social Security? Or what about those people like my aunt who worked all her life and ended up in a long term care facility on Medicaid and Social Security.

Medicaid is a Lifeline for People with Disabilities. Congress Must Act to Save It.

Congress is gearing up to cut hundreds of billions in funding for Medicaid. It’s happening right under our noses, and our rights depend on our ability to stop it.

ACLU

February 25, 2025

Congress is setting the stage to decimate Medicaid.

The House of Representatives put forward a budget resolution that will lead to more than $880 billion in cuts from Medicaid. If approved, these cuts will eviscerate a critical source of health care and stability for 10s of millions of people. Most devastatingly, radical cuts to Medicaid will be catastrophic for people with disabilities for whom Medicaid is a lifeline.

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Medicaid is the difference between life and death for millions. It enables people, especially those with disabilities, to participate in the economic, social, and civic life of the nation. It advances equal opportunity, dignity, and personal liberty for all.

Eviscerating Medicaid would not just impact those who rely on it for their quality of life, but it would also devastate the approximately 5 million direct care workers — home health aides, nursing assistants, personal care aides — who provide care and support to seniors and people with disabilities. These workers, predominantly low-wage women of color, help with all aspects of daily life, such as bathing, dressing, eating, managing medications, and attending appointments. Medicaid cuts will destabilize the direct-care workforce and jeopardize access to care.

As the House rams through its radical and thoughtless budget resolution that will gut Medicaid, the ACLU wants you to tell your Congress members how these devastating cuts will impact your community and those you know and love. Call your representatives today — and every single day — to tell them to protect Medicaid at all costs.

They swore on a stack of bibles that they wouldn’t cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security… it only took them less than two months to break their promise! 

America’s seniors also rely on Medicaid for nursing home care; two-thirds of people living in nursing facilities are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to Medicaid will jeopardize access to nursing facilities and reduce the quality-of-care individuals receive. Many older adults with long-term care needs will be left with limited care options and, in some cases, no options at all if states are unable to fill the funding gap and must close nursing facilities.

You know who the Nazis rounded up first… the disabled! The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust writes,

Severely mentally and physically disabled people, as well as those perceived to have disabilities, were targeted because of Nazi beliefs that disabled people were a burden both to society and to the state. From 1939 to 1941 the Nazis carried out a programme of ‘euthanasia’, known as the T4 programme. The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstrasse 4, the address from which the programme was coordinated.

So, who were their backers back then? Would it surprise you that it was the oligarchs of their day?

Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

Stephan Malinowski tells Rob Attar how a cocktail of naked opportunism and misplaced arrogance among Germany’s most powerful men facilitated the rise of the Third Reich | Accompanies the three-part BBC Two series The Rise of the Nazis

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“There was a constant feeling of threat among the elites. And they felt that they were under attack from the communists and leftwing forces. Perhaps the most important element of all is that the elite had to accept political change in 1918 at a time of doom and catastrophe and absolute despair in Germany, which is infinitely more difficult than doing it from a position of triumph."

Any of this sound familiar?

“Many members of the German elites thought he was going to be the useful idiot who was going to play their games. They thought he could be controlled. And I come back to this metaphor of the horseman riding the horse, except that within three or four months, they discovered that they were the horse and that Hitler was the horseman.”

Now they have found their patsy in Trump! Musk has him wrapped around his little finger. And now Musk and his patsy are going after the physical disabled, the mentally disabled, and seniors… the ACLU goes on to write,

Medicaid is the single largest funder of mental health and substance-use disorder care in the country. It provides care to nearly 14 million adults who have a mental health condition or substance use disorder. Medicaid expansion resulted in a significant increase in coverage and care for opioid use disorder (OUD.) Adults with OUD are twice as likely to receive OUD treatment if they have Medicaid than if they are uninsured or on private insurance.

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Medicaid is the difference between life and death for millions. It enables people, especially those with disabilities, to participate in the economic, social, and civic life of the nation. It advances equal opportunity, dignity, and personal liberty for all.

I get in heated discussion about… “Don’t label all Republicans the same!” crap! If you voted for Trump and the other Republicans because of the economy… you are just as guilty! You are an enabler. You voted for “ME” and instead of “US” you placed yourself above those who can not longer care for themselves. You placed yourself above your grandmother in a nursing home. You placed yourself above the child with Down syndrome. You placed yourself above your blind neighbor! All for the almighty dollar! There is a word for that. Greed!

How does it feel to be played like a patsy?