The zany ideas on Medicaid cost-cutting just keep coming. State officials in Idaho are suggesting that volunteers could deliver services to people with disabilities and other Medicaid recipients. Need someone to help you get dressed every morning? Find a volunteer. Need help taking your meditations? Find a volunteer. Those volunteers may not be even minimally qualified, but they’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. And when you’re forced to rely on the charity of others, you can’t afford to be too picky about things like qualifications.
State officials went on to say that it would be just like the good old days of the ’50s and ’60s when people with disabilities relied on volunteers for assistance with their most basic needs. And everyone remembers how those throngs of volunteers worked tirelessly to keep people with disabilities out of institutions and in their own homes. It was a veritable golden age for us gimps. So yes, please, let’s bring back those old-timey solutions that worked so well. I’m sure Idahoans with disabilities were getting tired of their independence anyway.
Wow. Thanks for the link.