It's A Busy Day For Me So Another Link To Another Good Piece

HERE IS SOME of what Digby has to say about Little Bobby and the Musk regime cutting off funding for Alzheimer's and dementia research funding.  Also how the cuts to Medicaid and Medicare are going to devastate those in long term care and their families and the long term care facilities and their employees. 

I don’t know if there is a breakthrough on the way but even if it’s a long way off this is an issue that will confront every person either living with the fear of getting it or caring for someone who does. It’s unconscionable that they would cut this program. (It’s unconscionable that they would cut any of this vital research into any diseases but that’s what they’re doing.)

I haven’t been able to find any comments by RFK Jr about Alzheimer’s but I would not be surprised to learn that he thinks it has something to do with processed food or environmental toxins (which could be true for all I know) but I suspect he will now be guiding research in those directions regardless of the scientific consensus. He’s very much a one-trick pony who has no education or expertise in any of this but that won’t matter.

Let me break in here to remind you that when Senator Elizabeth Warren gave Little Bobby the chance to pledge that he wouldn't make any money off of litigation by his law firm in the areas he is now in the position to aid his law firm by fudging the science,  Little Bobby pretended she was telling him he couldn't sue when she was only asking him to pledge he wouldn't be taking his customary 10% of the booty.  I would bet that there is a lot that he's going to be screwing with that he can figure out how to profit from on this job.   I think that's what he's always been about, he is a lawyer, after all and lawyering, apart from a very, very few eccentric low income types, is all about making money for the lawyer.

Oh, and by the way, Trump just endorsed the House budget plan which appears to cut at least a billion dollars from Medicaid. What do you think pays for most elderly people with Alzheimer’s in assisted living and nursing homes? Yep.