Can you live on $292 a month? GOP cuts ask disabled elderly

[usregimechange]

On the Missouri Baby Blunt Medicaid Cuts:

"About 60,000 people will be eliminated because of the new income restrictions. Before the cuts, for instance, Medicaid covered those earning less than 75 percent of the poverty level. The new cap has been reduced to 23 percent. Consequently, a single parent with two children can earn no more than $292 a month to be eligible for Medicaid; for a mother with three kids, the lid is about $342, although her children still would be covered."

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[napi21]

1. The ONLY was someone could survive on that is via rent subsidy and

food stamps, and even then I'm not sure it's possible!

[usregimechange]

2. It would pay half of my monthly child care.

[napi21]

4. You couldn't pay child care!

A monthly income like that only allows someone to work if they can do some kind of tradeoff, like one person workd daylight and watches the others kids at night, and the same for the person who works night turn. You CAN'T pay child care, or anything else. The amt. of $$ only covers the bare minimum like food, and something for subsidized housing if you can find something really cheap in your area.

[halobeam]

6. And if someone worked, then they wouldn't get the lowered payment either.

Of course no one can live on it. It's not even a realistic question in my opinion. We are being reduced to "asses" to even entertain the conversation of whether we could live on that much a month. It's moot. It's a joke. It's diversionary. It's everything wrong.

It's INHUMANE.

[usregimechange]

9. That was the point of the question. Of course not! It is wrong.

[madrchsod]

3. in the real world- no they can`t.

i have a sister in law that falls somewhat in this category. she has nothing left after three weeks into the month.she relys on us to help her get by the last week.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

5. What happens to my very elderly aunt...

... who is presently not on Medicaid but plans to be on it soon because she is in a nursing home that charges $5300 per month? Her social security income is $600 per month. This is not a rhetorical question. There must be hundreds of thousands of the elderly in a similar situation.

[Jamison]

7. Most people couldn't live on that in 1947.

My neighbor who's 80 is here and I just showed this to him. He said that him and his wife at the time only made about that much per month in 1947 when he got out of the service. He said it was tough for them to make it on that kind of money back then just for perspective.

I know I'll be doing my part in '08 to vote Blunt out of office!!!

[usregimechange]

8. kick

[elehhhhna]

10. Survive on 292 a month? Maybe. In Cuba and perhaps Mexico.

[usregimechange]

11. Maybe that is what they want the poor to do.

[elehhhhna]

17. Offshore the Poor!

[LifeDuringWartime]

12. hell of a lot more than what i make

then again, im a soon to be gradutating high school student living at home working for minimum wage less than 20 hours a week

[NVMojo]

13. Jeezus fecking H Keerhist!!!! The Baron Nation is established!!!

And the emporer's slaves are naked and hungry!!

[MODemocrat]

14. Only if we could be weaned from eating

and from being on medication. What a total disgrace this government has become...What a bunch of heartless jackasses. What happened to their so-called FAMILY VALUES?
:spank: :grr:

[sarcasmo]

15. Would barely cover my child support. Standing in the food lines

we will be.

[CatholicEdHead]

16. No way

that does not even cover my rent.

[TheFarseer]

18. The only way is if you didn't pay rent

or a mortgage. And had no modern conviniences like cell phones, internet, cable or a car. You sure as hell couldn't have kids. It would be a real strippped down existence. You basically would have to have no life in order to live.

[htuttle]

19. There's another option

Use the money to buy a shotgun and a ski mask, and just take up robbing fucking banks for a living.



Worst case, you get caught and live on the state's dime the rest of your life. A person might live better in jail than on $300 a month. You'd certainly eat better...

[Pryderi]

20. That's what happens when huge deficits cause federal aid to states 2 b cut

We're at Bush's mercy.