12/25/17: Merry Christmas, everyone. According to the Groper-in-Chief, the “War on Christmas” has been won. Liberals will no longer kick over public Nativity scenes. Commies will cease gathering up Christmas cards and burning them in bonfires. Barack Obama will never again come to your house, knock politely and, upon entry, smash your keepsake ornaments.
Trump’s first tweet of the day is a rousing cheer in the fictitious war that never was: “Merry Christmas.”
In this war, Trump fought heroically since there were no bullets involved. Plus: there were presents.
Also, we should say, “Merry Christmas, Grandma!”
At the urging of lobbyists for the nursing home industry another victory is won when Trump & Co. cut back “unnecessary” regulations. Say, Granny has an operation. Doctors implant a medication pump in her abdomen. The sutures don’t hold. Over a period of eight days the incision opens. The pump sticks out of Granny like the horrible creature that pops out of that the guy’s guts in Alien. Granny gets an infection and dies.
(This is a true story.)
Well, now you can tell Granny, “Merry Christmas” whenever you
see her. Except for the minor detail that Granny is dead.
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Until now. Because she's dead! |
Under new rules it will be much harder to sue nursing homes in cases of improper care or negligence.
Meanwhile, the average cost of a year’s stay in a semi-private room in a nursing home is more than $80,000 annually. But don’t worry. Medicare and Medicaid help pay most of the costs.
Oh, wait, Paul Ryan and the Republicans want to cut back
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
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