"we need to get these people to look down on them" he says..
Then you look at the overwhelming amount of government handouts that go to the top 1% who get Billions in welfare subsidies and don't need them, welfare tax breaks, welfar TARP, and we can thank him (and others like him) for one thing - exposing the under-handed tactics that will prey on members of the disabled community to try to get them to do their dirty work by "looking down" on other Medicaid beneficiaries. Not as stealth as Karl Rove but just as feeble in moral compass department.
Hate to say this but he is right... There are so many lifers on Medicaid and the other social programs that the amount and quality of assistance is diluted. If we could raise the bar for what qualifies one for long term assistance and also raise the bar on what we do as a gov't/society to enable people currently on assistance to live productive lives, then we could actually offer a higher quality of assistance to those needing these benefits.
For reference, my daughter had a Medicaid card for her first three years of her life. I make six figures a year. Due to her birth weight (1 pound 4.2 ounces) the U.S. Gov't deemed her disabled at birth. So for the first few years, we would have Medicaid to fall back on if needed and if she had been still deemed disabled at age three she could have potentially had Medicaid coverage for the rest of her life which would have been important to have as sooner or later both her mother and I will depart this earth.
Point is, the program was there to help us when and in case we needed it. I got a statement of benefits every now and then explaining what was changing with Medicaid and I have to say the level of benefits is appalling, if at minimum - sufficient. When my daughter was born, I had been laid off, and continued my private insurance via COBRA. My private insurance was there to pay everything... though it was nice to know that Medicaid- at least given the circumstances of my daughter's birth weight would also cover her.
That is my point... If we can get rid of the lifers that are otherwise able bodied and just producing a new dependent welfare generation, we could actually really help those more deserving. We could help those with more assistance that fall temporarily on hard times. It was pretty fucking eye opening to me in going through the interview at the Social Security office for my daughter's Medicaid coverage how dirt poor you need to be for standard Medicaid.
Anyway, I digress. My original point stands, yes he is right. We should work to eradicate those on social assistance that do not aspire to rise above it.
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