MUST READ: If R$R Prevail On Medicaid Kids Get Ready To Sign Over YOUR House -----

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26. I have been trying to get my wingnut stepsister and her

even worse wingnut, ignorant husband, to understand this, as they live in a "filial responsibility" law state and her father, my stepfather, has been in a nursing home with dementia, in only his sixties, for several years now. They hate Medicaid, Medicare, evil big guv'ment, etc,, etc. (you know the drill), but benefit tremendously from it. Were it not for Medicaid, and the fact that my mother is still alive so most of her income and pension, as well as my stepdad's pension, is taken for his monthly bills before Medicaid kicks in its share, they'd be on the hook legally for thousands of dollars a month that they either don't have or, being the greedy, selfish people that they are, wouldn't want to part with. In fact, it may get to that point, as the state may, indeed, decide to start more aggressively enforcing the law. Given the utterly disgusting, thuggish, wingnut teabagger extraordinaire who's currently occupying the governor's seat, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I'm actually more surprised that they haven't yet.

Unfortunately for them, stepsis and hubby simply WILL NOT LISTEN to those who try to tell them this and DO NOT GET IT. And they have a nice house, new cars, etc., etc. Now, I don't begrudge them any of that at all. But they need to be aware that they could easily lose all of that should their beloved guv, the one they'd love to meet to have over for a beer sometime and whom they practically worship, start enforcing that law. But I'm sure they'll just find another way to blame Dems, instead of recognizing where the true problem is.