Political Quotes

“So, just today, I visited a nursing home on Staten Island and a nursing home on Long Island--both in Republican congressional districts--and I spoke to people there. At the nursing home I visited, if Medicaid were cut significantly, the nursing home would close, according to the head of this nursing home. He was there. Three hundred people would lose their jobs, and these people--hundreds of people in this nursing home--would have nowhere to go. Isn't it accurate that they say, ``Oh, they can move in with their kids''? First, isn't it accurate that many of them are in a condition where the kids can't take care of them? Second, given the housing shortages we face--and the tariffs will make that worse with the wood--isn't it true that many families just don't have room to take an elderly person, particularly one who needs care, into their homes and that this would cause chaos to all sorts of people who are not on Medicaid themselves but who have loved ones who need it in assisted living, in nursing homes, in care facilities?”