Turning 65 has been the biggest butt pain I've had since since 2022 when I was able to wade through the gazillions of paperwork to get Medicaid, social security and temporary housing assistance. It would be damn nice for things to stay the same, but nope.
Hey!! Happy birthday! We have a present for you. You will no longer be covered under Medicaid. Oh! And we're going to take money out of your social security check to pay for Medicare, because we know your broke, but thems the rules. So sorry that you are on so many medications, you'll need to pay some more for that coverage.
It's like it wasn't obvious that I was on Medicaid because I'm poor. That seems to have suddenly changed overnight.. because now I'm 65. I have spent the last couple of weeks calling and waiting on hold to try and make this a sensible transition. Why the federal government thinks that 65 is a great age to mess with older folks is beyond me .
But it could be worse and likely will be. Why? Because the person who won the election has a little 900 page guide on how to strip funds and melt down government agencies. He doesn't give a HOOT who is hurt by what will be done. I can honestly say that millions of our elderly will lose their homes, meds and food. It will be the biggest crisis imaginable with the old folks pushed to the streets. The authors of project 2025 must have not taken to account what messing with SS and Medicare will do. They think that all of us dependent on SS should go back to work. Work till we die. I guess only the wealthy deserve to retire. We worked for that security for years. It's ours and not an entitlement, some sort of gift. NO IT ISN'T.
So I'm trying my hardest to wade through this, but how long will it be before they destroy it? The end of 2025 is what has been predicted. I'm sure it would solve their problems by rounding us up and placing us in camps like they intend to do with immigrants. Just gas the old folks so they can take the money they want so badly.
The morons who voted him in are not separate because of their votes . Yeah, you voted for someone who has no respect for our democracy. He will systematically dismantle the Constitution. Your rights will disappear the same as the rest of us. I'm sure you'll be proud of your choice when our democracy becomes a dictatorship. Thanks so much for fucking the country over.
