My parent had to move in with relatives in MN for 9 months because they couldn’t live alone, and WI had absolutely nothing for a working class person with only 80k left in savings. Nursing homes wouldn’t even take them without guarantee of almost 200k.

Millennial with kids and a parent who needs long term care right here. If in-home care would have been an option my loved one maybe wouldn’t have deteriorated to the point of needing a nursing home for an entire YEAR.

I’ve seen people suggesting this is a pitch to seniors and, while it is in a way, the real target of this are their kids. They’re the ones who would otherwise have to shoulder the financial burden on their own and/or personally provide the care for their elderly parents themselves.

PLphillewis.bsky.socialOct 8, 2024 11:10am

Kamala Harris will propose a major new initiative today: expanding Medicare to cover the cost of long-term care at home

Kamala Harris To Roll Out A Big New Initiative On 'The View'

Harris will pitch the initiative as a way to help "sandwich generation" families and propose paying for it mostly with savings from Medicare drug negotiations.

My kid and I made puppets. This is his. His puppet is wearing pants.

I hope this is true because I don’t actually agree with them- but lord I’d be happy if the Fox crowd is repulsed by him so much that it’s fucking with their perception. Also let Walz be your daddy, fox viewers. Just let it happen.

I ruined my boss’s day by telling him about the energy consumption of generative ai. Like the other evil shit was fine but the environmental impact was a bridge too far.

A reminder that the election isn’t about the person at the top of the ticket as much as it is about the thousands of people they’ll put in positions of power One candidate will give us more people like this idiot

Those who learn from history are still doomed to repeat it just while pointing wildly and screaming into the void.

Cops guarding a grocery store in North Carolina because payment processing is down… in case you’re wondering what their actual job is- it’s protecting capital- not you

Wild that people are just buying pot from a bodega in my ridiculously stuffy, boring Brooklyn neighborhood. No one is even pretending anymore.