More Americans under 65 are getting "free" health care on Medicaid than the number on Medicare!

Everyone's heard of "Medicare"--a federal program to pay most of the health-care costs of people over 65.  But if you're a college-age American you may not know about a similarly-named program called Medicaid.  

After the assassination of Dem president John F. Kennedy in 1963, his former VP, now the new president, quickly used the huge sympathy for the slain JFK to pass every Democrat wish-list freebie imaginable. Democrat congresspersons, in their never-ending quest to buy votes, were eager to help, and easily passed a bill to have taxpayers give essentially-"free" health care to people over 65.

But that didn't buy quite enough votes, so the bill also ordered that taxpayer funds be used to give low-income Americans of ANY age--or Americans claiming to be disabled--"free" health care--Medicaid.

Obviously it's not really free, but just free to the recipients, paid for by you and your parents.  Cuz members of congress don't hesitate to force Americans to give "free stuff" to Dem supporters.

The program was envisioned as a safety net for the poorest Americans, but like all federal programs it has expanded over the years.  As anyone could have predicted, as more people learned about the freebie, the number of people "enrolled" in Medicaid went exponential.  Now almost 74 million Americans under age 65 get "free" health care.  

Well, free to them, anyway.

In 2020 the Chinese "plandemic" prompted lots more Americans to sign up: From February 2020 through January of this year 9.7 million more people jumped on the freebie train.  Some of these signed up because the lockdowns by Democrat governors killed their jobs, income and health insurance.  But much of the increase is because of a rule change that was part of the first coronavirus relief law passed by congress.

That "relief law" gave states extra federal money (your taxes) to help states pay for what were anticipated to be ballooning Medicaid costs, but with a catch: to get the cash, states had to promise they wouldn't remove anyone from their Medicaid rolls until the federal government ended the Fauci-declared "public health emergency."  Which Fauci and friends assured us was anticipated to happen "real soon now."  

Anyone remember Fauci's bullshit phrase "We just need two weeks to 'flatten the curve'"?

(Of course you've read that the average age of people the CDC has declared to have died "from" the Chinese virus--even if they died in a car crash!--is higher than the average lifespan of all Americans.  But shhhh!  You're not supposed to notice that.)

Amusingly, Democrat leaders--experts at warping language for their advantage--call both Medicare and Medicaid "insurance programs."  They're not, of course, but by calling the programs "insurance" it makes people think the programs aren't just more freebies paid for by taxpayers.

So Medicare was used to get people to accept taxpayers paying for health care for retirees--which set the stage for Part 2: free medical care for the poor of any age.  And today, 11 million MORE Americans are getting "free" health care on Medicaid than the nearly 63 million Americans over 65 who are on Medicare.

Ya think anyone in congress thought that would happen?  More to the point, if you'd told 'em it was absolutely certain to happen, how do you think the Dems would have responded?

A month after biden* took office, the biden*harris regime nominated Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as CMS administrator.  Late last month she was confirmed, becoming the first black woman to hold that post.


Initially, to get "free" medical on Medicaid a person had to be low-income or have a disability.  But "disability" is...um...a VERY expandable term.  So I know you'll be shocked to hear this, but a "disability" became anything a scam artist could pay a corrupt doc to say was "disabling" him.  No independent verification was needed.  And if you just wanted to sit home and smoke dope all day, without looking for a job--thus "low income"--you could get free medical.

President Trump changed that rule:  people without a disability couldn't just loaf and expect free Medicaid.  Instead Trump's CMS director encouraged states to require non-disabled people to be actively looking for work to get the free medical.  But the corrupt Democrats managed to insert a faaabulous loophole:  You didn't have to be looking for a job if you were "in school."

That faabulous loophole probably won Dems another three million votes.  "Schools" began popping up all over the place, offering all sorts of paperwork to keep that "free" medical care coming.

Of course, as you could have predicted, a federal judge struck down that policy, ruling that it the government couldn't require low-income people to be looking for a job to get "free" Medicaid.  Nice.

And under the biden*harris regime, and the regime's newly-confirmed administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, you can expect rules for Medicaid eligibility to be further relaxed.

MSN dutifully parrots the Left's claim that 30 million Americans are still uninsured.

Medicare is totally federal.  By contrast, Medicaid is touted as "a shared responsibility" between the federal government and states, with the federal government paying part of the cost, depending on a state’s wealth, and setting basic rules for what the state has to pay for.  The Mainstream Media disingenuously claim "States decide the rest."  

But that key phrase, that the gruberment sets the "basic rules" is--by design--infinitely elastic, and the DeepStaters in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid have made a RULE (agencies can do dat unless barred by law) that both of those programs will now pay for...wait for it...sex-change operations.  Seriously.

Wait, it gets better--if you're a Democrat pol or scammer, anyway:  Because almost ten million people jumped on Medicaid in 2020, states stopped checking whether people were really eligible to get money.  And now the biden* administration has said  the "public health emergency" triggered by the plandemic will continue at least through the end of this year, meaning states won't be urged to resume checking for eligibility until then.  Chiquita Brooks-LaSure echoed that two days ago.

But if you think resuming checking eligibility will take ineligible people off Medicaid--i.e. reduce fraud-- think again: Brooks-LaSure says her agency will "closely monitor state Medicaid officials to ensure they handle eligibility reviews properly."  That's code for "don't remove ANY of 'our' Dem voters from Medicaid unless you want to be penalized."

In case anyone didn't get the code, Chiquita added “We are very focused on making sure we don’t lose our gains in coverage through *unnecessary hoops.”*

Ah, requiring people to actually prove that they're eligible for "free" medical care is now phrased as "unnecessary hoops."  Got it.

Brooks-LaSure also said some people whose incomes have risen too high to stay on Medicaid would become eligible for private health plans sold through "ACA insurance marketplaces"--i.e. Obamacare. A "reporter" for MSN quotes Chiquita as saying “We should be getting whatever coverage they’re eligible for.”  Doesn't seem to make sense but then Chiquita is supposedly smaht, so I prolly don't understand.

BTW, "low income" is 138 percent of the official "federal poverty level" — today about $37,000 for a family of four.

The American Rescue Plan, the most recent coronavirus aid package that became law in March, includes a new, generous incentive for states to broaden their safety net. The incentive would add extra federal aid for each person in the program.  That is, the more people a state gets to sign up, the larger the extra "bonus" federal dollars.  Wow, nothing like bribery, eh?