I am a low income elder on medicare/medicaid. Not only has the 'advantage' plan we're forced to be on cut our benefits by 50% - so no more help with our utilities or bills or the choice to use those benefits to help us make ends meet - no more dental -and not only are they radically cutting SNAP - this in the first year (it'll get worse) - but people on Traditional Medicare are PAYING for it - then offered these 'Advantage' plans to cut costs! Beware! ALL 'Advantage' plans are only advantageous to the profits of the corporations robbing the rest of us. The brainwashed say good riddance to all socialist programs, not understanding that we PAID into them with our taxes, they are not 'entitlements.' They are OURS because we paid into them. Only, they no longer are ours.

 United Health relies on AI with an 85% error rate to handle claims; guess what percentage of claims are denied. These behemoth private medical corporations want all of our health data - including and especially, our Mental Health data.  Medicaid is now set up that way to require it. I looked into it after a person I know was bodily hauled from her home in what some social worker deemed a 'crisis' situation. United keeps wanting to come to my apartment. I live on an island. I keep refusing. They want to do a health assessment, see how I live. Nope. I know where this is all going; especially given the wealth disparity and grift going on. How much money does all of this cost added invasion into our lives and homes and who is paying for all of this? Not the corporations or their wealthy shareholders and CEOs! The data centers being built that are sucking up power use? This is what they are for, for AI and for monitoring our everything. Then we pay exorbitant electric bills because we have to go all electric, say the power companies owned by these same grifters. (Blackrock, Blackstone, and the rest).

What this means, between the lines, NOW, in our blatantly fascist regime is, if they don't like anyone who resists the inhumanity of it all or thinks independently, that person can be declared mentally incompetent or criminally insane or unable to care for themselves -  and committed to an asylum or other detention center.

The person who was recently removed from her home is low income, on medicaid. She is disabled but can still drive. She doesn't remember signing anything but apparently she signed page 6 of something and was hauled out of her home, deemed 'suicidal' (which she is NOT), strapped into an ambulance (ie restrained!), her dog given to the Shelter and the Shelter told she was not coming back. They put her through terrible trauma. Social workers are part of this training for medicaid people now, and linked with regional mental health entities for low income people, such as Compass in Washington State. It's all one system now. Once they have all our data, they will do with it what they want. 

This person knew her rights, called them out on it, and was released the next day because the intake person didn't know what she was doing there or who made such a decision - there was no 'crisis.' But now that she is in the system, they are still bothering her. She still has to do 'wellness' calls so she won't be removed from her rental home.

This can happen to any one of us - it will happen more to people living alone with no relatives or POAs. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I've been doing some research on the Medicaid piece and it is chilling, the implications, especially given recent news and arming cities with ICE and National Guard. 

I sincerely hope that anyone on Traditional medicare can keep it, but it seems like we are all being herded like cattle into the slaughterhouse. Fight it if you can! It seems worse than having no health insurance. The aim seems to be that we no longer have sole ownership of your body or mind; perhaps the aim is to grab all the assets, such as low income rentals, and privatize those as well, into luxury condos for the 3rd or 4th playground home while people work 3 or more jobs just to make ends meet and nothing can go wrong. My advice; get someone you trust to be your health POA. You'll need this going forward. I'm sorry to go on and on about this. I hope others will speak out so that people don't get duped into these 'advantage' plans. Resist them if you can.

@Richard Verbree - if you are a real person and not a bot - I'll tell you what's a load of crap. It's the propaganda painting all immigrants as 'rapists and other criminals.' Nothing is further from the truth. IF these people had Miranda Rights, as they are supposed to, they would have protections against sudden deportation to prison camps, and worse. IF the immigrants that you seem to all think are a danger had any civil rights, as guaranteed by the Constitution, it would not take an average of 24! ++ years to gain citizenship when they do every single thing right (or ought to be granted asylum from brutal US-installed dictators like Rios Montt - but you probably don't know the history of Guatemala and many of these countries from which people are fleeing. Immigrants pay taxes and never get refunds or social security. They pay into our system for nothing in return - except to be rounded up, many after living decades here and contributing their skills and knowledge to our citizenry, and deported, or worse. 

I'm glad someone has corrected you on the differences between the National Guard, a SWAT team, and ICE. ICE can force their way into your home with no warrant if they even suspect an 'illegal' is there. ICE can bodily, violently pull someone out of a car since streets are 'public' places - they can smash the driver's window to get at a suspected illegal. You think that is OK? Is it OK if it happens to a white immigrant, or only anyone that doesn't fit 'white?'

You say 'You leftist(s)' like it is something filthy to eradicate, not even knowing someone's political leanings- it is troubling that you have bought into the fear porn. What happened to people coming together as humans and welcoming everyone to the shores of this country - or at least treating others with respect and dignity while they are here? I'm just curious what your ancestry is,  because as far as I know, only First Nations can claim that they're Native to the Americas. Blacks were brought over against their will as slaves - as were the Chinese and many other peoples.Try thinking for yourself and reading history. There is plenty of unbiased history out there to counter the beliefs you have swallowed.