RFK Jr Wants To Eliminate Medicaid Payments To Family Caregivers
RFK Jr. has probably not spent a day in his life depending on a paycheck. So, maybe he has no idea how impossible it would be for many families to give up the income from a job to provide free caregiving for a disabled and/or elderly relative. Or maybe it’s just part of his obvious plan to destroy our public health system, endanger American lives or just kill us outright.
Whatever the reason, Kennedy thinks family members should not be getting Medicaid funds for being caretakers of disabled loved ones. During his testimony on Capitol Hill last week, Kennedy complained about family members getting paid “for balancing the checkbook, for picking up the groceries, for driving somebody to a doctor’s appointment” because those are “things that they used to do as family members for free.”
“This is rife with fraud because we have no way at CMS to determine whether they actually perform that duty or not. We don’t know whether you drove your grandmother to a doctor’s office,” he also said.