my point is, we struggle when we are making more now than we were 15 years ago.. a lot more. So it's not that gov't aid crept into the middle class, it's that the middle class is dying out.. in the next 20 years there will be the servers and the millionaires... and nothing in between... the idea that everyone should be a millionaire is wonderful, except that when that happens the price of widgets goes up to 100,000 a piece.. where they were only 400 a piece 20 years earlier.. but that is the course we are on..when wall street greed and deception along with vulture capitalism is hailed by presidential nominee as being 'good' and 'american' the real America suffers..
Ya know...I was thinking of lilMike's extraordinarily dismissive comment about people on Medicaid yesterday and their co-pays:
The state tried to have a copay for Medicaid before, in the late 80's I think. It was before I worked at the health department, but I heard about it. It was ended by the clients themselves. They just refused to pay and demanded services anyway. The State caved.
I remember how many of our patients, many of whom were dying of AIDS..others quads...others parents of very small children dying of this or that disease...and how many of them were so worried when the law started requiring a copay. Even $2 is tough to come by, especially when the same Medicaid law only paid to take care of that quad or AIDS patient or baby 25% of the time.
I remember patients begging me to send that nurse or aide to their home, promising to pay the copay as soon as they got their meager disability or whatever check.
But lilMike makes them sound like King Midas, waving away the peons.
I can never understand how people can be so uncaring and I believe I told lilMike yesterday that :
Now I can see why you no longer work at the Health Dept.
Yeah. I'm positive the lucky ones involved with his departure were the patients whom he looked so uncaringly down to.
