Michael Longest

[🄺🄰🅃🄴 𓆉 @Kate9675]

@DontCallMeDebby

[WCVB-TV Boston @WCVB]

Nope, no filter on the lens. This is the view at Revere Beach, colorized by the wildfire smoke drifting into Massachusetts today. An air quality alert is in effect today. https://t.co/1ppad3HuGT

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@Chip_da_Whip @CBS6 Hope you know most of the supreme court is Republican. Even though they all should be non-partisan. And if Texas gets to redraw their districts then we should be able too.

[Carina C. C @CCC75167010]

Let me break this down without sugar-coating a damn thing:
America is one medical event away from financially euthanizing its own elders.

Everybody loves to chant “support our seniors” right up until the moment they need actual hands-on care — then suddenly it’s Congratulations, you’re broke now.

Because here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud:

Taking care of an elderly parent in this country doesn’t cost “a little money.”
No.
It costs a house.
It costs a retirement account.
It costs your sanity.
It costs your life savings and then the government sends you a thank-you note by putting a Medicaid lien on the family home after your parent dies, just to clean out the leftovers.

You want the numbers?
Let’s go.

Home care? $33 an hour.
That’s $8,000 a month just to keep someone safe in their own damn home.

Assisted living? $5,900 a month — $71,000 a year.
More than college. Less useful.

Memory care? Hope you’ve got two kidneys to sell.

Nursing home? $111,000 to $128,000 a year.
That’s not a bill — that’s a ransom note.

And while families are drowning, caregivers — the people keeping our loved ones alive — are paid $16 an hour, while agencies bill $34+ and pocket the difference like it’s a clearance sale on human suffering.

Meanwhile Medicare — the thing Americans THINK pays for their parents’ care — doesn’t pay for ANY long-term custodial help.
Not at home.
Not in assisted living.
Not even in a nursing home beyond a short rehab stay.
They kick you to the curb the second you’re stable enough to blink — “good luck, hope your kids aren’t broke yet.”

So who pays?

Medicaid.
But only if you’re poor enough to practically vanish.
Only if you sell down, spend down, or die down to qualify.
And even THEN, there’s a 3-year, 4-year, 5-year waitlist for home care in some states.
Imagine being 87, needing help with bathing and eating, and the government basically says,
“Sure, sweetie — get on the list, we’ll call you by 2029.”

Families step in — unpaid, exhausted, wrecked.
America survives on the backs of daughters, daughters-in-law, and burned-out adult children quietly doing $600 billion worth of unpaid care every single year while the insurance industry gets fat selling policies with premiums that jump 30% overnight.

And nursing homes?
Corporate chains.
Private equity.
Debt stacked on debt.
They make their money not from love, not from care — but from Medicare rehab margins and private-pay seniors who bleed out their savings to subsidize everyone else.
Your grandma’s Social Security check is not keeping the lights on.
Your grandma’s house is.

This isn’t a system.
This is a machine — designed to take every last dollar a family has before they’re allowed to get help.
A machine that punishes aging, punishes disability, punishes the poor, and punishes anyone who dares to live long enough to need care.

So when politicians talk about “cutting healthcare,”
When they casually vote to slash ACA subsidies, gut Medicaid, or privatize Medicare with a grin like it’s a fun little math problem,
Let me translate what they’re actually saying:

“If your parents get sick… you’re on your own.
If your husband gets dementia… sell the house.
If YOU get disabled… pray you die quickly.”

Because without coverage?
Without Medicaid?
Without ACA?
Without guardrails?

Elder care in America becomes a luxury product.
Only the rich age with dignity.
Everyone else ages with debt.

This isn’t politics.
This is survival.
This is the bill every American family eventually gets — and the bill our leaders pretend doesn’t exist.

We’re not fighting for healthcare.
We’re fighting for our future ability to not abandon the people who raised us.

Because one day, if this system isn’t fixed, it won’t be your parents you’re terrified for.

It’ll be you.

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@NavyFederal I tried what you said and it still didn't let me log in

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@Faithful2Pray @ABC @CAgovernor That's what Texas is doing.

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@KELSEAAPARK @ABC What evidence? The "evidence" that comes from this clowns mouth?

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@realtalkstruth Where were the nuclear sites? In Iran, so he bombed Iran. If he didn't dispose of the nuclear deal that Obama made we wouldn't be in this mess, now would we

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@jt_0001 @ABC No, I think what you meant to say is the mess that Trump left behind after his first term. Obama made a nuclear deal with Iran to where they wouldn't be able to mine, make or have any nuclear weapons/components, then Trump came and tossed that deal out the window.

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@Rebellious1776X @ABC And who will be doing their jobs? Like farming, plant picker, construction? All the jobs that the normal American would rather not do?

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@jjamiemosley961 @ABC He can't run or serve for a 3rd.. it's in the Constitution, unless y'all MAGA don't believe in the Constitution.

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@Keithhambone @ABC And you really think that private schools will be more affordable? You know they can charge what they want and they can choose who they allow in

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@ThomBradley8 @ABC Bruh... The tarrifs WILL have a major impact on all goods and services. It's basically another sales tax on the American working class.

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@dogeai_gov @atrupar And to mention, H.R. 1050 isn't even a law yet... It was just introduced back in February of this year.

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@dogeai_gov @atrupar Like how Trump has spent millions of the US tax payers dollars to go to the Super Bowl, a NASCAR Race and recently a fight, and not to forget his frequent trips to Mara largo to play Golf? How about we look into Trump for all that he's done in his first 90ish days?

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@dogeai_gov @atrupar Since when does AI have a voice in what happens to the citizens of the United States?

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@FuzzyManStudios @GeneralMCNews And we should ask trump who he pardoned on his first day in office, right?

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@Papatmph01 @GeneralMCNews DOGE isn't even a real department. It wasn't approved by Congress and Musk wasn't even approved by Congress. So DOGE is a complete scam

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@ddpaskoff @LeadingReport Don't you know, Trump will just say the official language of Greenland is English... Like he did for the USA

[Michael Longest @longest_michael]

@SgtFoxy5 @ABC What fraud? What the millions of dead people supposedly getting social security checks? Which is completely false.