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I'm on Medicaid. I'm one of this country's poor. I saw a movie many years ago starring my favorite actor, Charlton Heston. It was not a favorite movie. In fact it caused me to lose my appetite. The name of it was Soylent Green. Is our society moving in that direction that we consider old people and those who can't afford to live to walk into hospitals and be euthanized and our bodies turned into food? I saw the pictures of protests where police were taking people out of a Senator's office because he stands by this bill to cut Medicaid. It's telling me that we have no right to live because we need Medicaid. It's telling me that if we need some kind of medical procedure we're going to be placed on a list, a list that we might never get to the top of before we die because there aren't any funds. What's next? I have heard rumblings about Social Security too. Is that also going to be taken away from us? Then what? Not everyone was born with people in their lives to tell them and show them how to manage their money so they didn't need to rely on Social Security as their only means of income in their later years. Not everyone has the smarts necessary to get the good jobs that will allow them to have a good retirement. I don't often write a political post. I'm not pointing my finger at any one person because quite frankly this kind of talk has been going on since I was in grade school. They tried to frighten us then that Social Security wouldn't be around when we retired. It's good to know it still is, but I wonder for how much longer. Is Congress really going to allow Americans to die because they can't afford health insurance? Because they are too poor to live? It reminds me of Charles Dickens story - A Christmas Carol. Scrooge told the two gentlemen who wanted him to donate money to charity that the poor people should just die and decrease the surplus of the earth. Has Congress become Scrooge? Are we going to just sit back and tell poor people everywhere they don't have the right to live because they are poor? $800 Billion is proposed to cut Medicaid over the next decade. Not all at once, but gradually. Maybe people really don't matter and all the save the _________ societies have it right. We might as well save our animals and fish, trees and whatever, because nobody is interested in saving people. Okay, now I've had my say on this matter. The only thing I don't want to see in comments is reference to our president. I see that and I will delete it. Thanks for reading.