The rats intend to collapse Medicaid. The rats also intend to collapse Medicare. The rats are intending for both Medicaid and Medicare to wither on the vine. Single payer is the goal and complete control of the Health Care portion of the economy is the goal. Once single payer is the law and because the supreme court classified payments as a tax, just like many other countries having socialized medicine considered the contributions as a tax, the system eventually collapses. Someone was joking with several people the other day and said ... Well I once had insurance with a reasonable deductible, now I have none. I once could afford to have the basics of life. Now I have a tremendously high deductible and if I become sick, all the basics I once could afford go to pay for my high insurance deductible. Is going to be fun dying from starvation. The whole group laughed at the person speaking; some a bit nervously because they too have joined this person in the same boat of high deductibles.
It is for the purpose of asset forfeiture; they want the real estate and assets of the middle class. They will continue to escalate the costs of both health care AND insurance until NO ONE can afford it. Then, we will magically all find ourselves on Medicaid (not some new single-payer plan) with increased taxes, terrible healthcare, and without the laws about asset forfeiture having been changed.
I also expect them to sneak something in to an upcoming law making medical bills "unbankruptable"...so that even if you have one of the new plans with huge deductibles your assets will be taken when you find yourself with a $30,000 hospital bill and no way to pay it.
They have been doing this for years with the elderly who are in nursing homes. They spend down the assets to pay for the care, then go on Medicaid; then when the person passes away the remaining assets are used to pay "back" the bills. WHICH IS FINE...everyone knows this, and the nursing homes/social services make it very clear.
This is a whole other thing entirely. Forty and fifty year old people, who are being shuttled into the Medicaid program have no idea that their assets are subject to this. But, you can bet it was PLANNED to be that way.
They cannot have the "peasants" having assets; it is a very good way to confiscate guns, ag land, and other "troublesome" things that might get in the way of their bizarre communist plan.
The good news is, that the American people seem to have finally woken up to the fact that something nefarious is going on (although they don't think much past the fact that their insurance has changed). I wouldn't expect much out of most of the Republicans; Paul Ryan's Medicare reform scheme from a few years back was nothing more than a trial balloon for the same type of thing, albeit on a lesser scale. I knew right then that he was either a useful idiot or an enemy...as it turns out, he is both.
Ironically, I remember a liberal suggestion to the health insurance crisis as “Medicare for everyone”. Just expand the program, make everyone’s checks get Medicare deductions, and you can buy private supplement plans for what it doesn’t cover.