An Open Letter to Every MAGA Voter With a Loved One in a Nursing Home

You Voted for This. You Voted to Kill the System Keeping My Father Alive.

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Update: This post originally implied that Section 112209 had already passed into law. That was incorrect — the bill has passed the House but still requires Senate approval. We weren't trying to mislead; we simply got ahead of ourselves. The threat remains real, and the moment to act is now. If you're angry or afraid, good. Channel it: call your Senators, write them, show up. No effort is too small — and nothing is over yet.

I Hope You're Proud. My Dad (And Your Dad) May Be Next.

You voted for Trump.
You voted for Project 2025.
You voted for “The Big, Beautiful Bill.”
You voted for Section 112209, Medicaid cuts, nursing home chaos, and the slow, silent erasure of the vulnerable.

I hope you’re proud of what you’ve done. Because now I get to wake up every day wondering if my 92-year-old father is going to be thrown out of his Medicaid-funded nursing home because you wanted to “stick it to the libs.”

Let’s be clear:
My dad is not a radical. He’s not a terrorist. He’s not a “welfare queen.” He taught me to tie my shoes. He kept the lights on when Reaganomics tried to grind working people into powder. And now this country is telling him “you’re too expensive.” He’s a human being who spent his life working, raising a family, and paying into a system that now wants to drop-kick him into the street so billionaires can get another tax break.

And thanks to Section 112209 and its Medicaid-hollowing siblings buried deep in this “budget” bill, that exact nightmare is now legally possible.

What the Bill Actually Does (Since You Clearly Didn’t Read It)

Here's what your vote actually helped pass:

• Medicaid work requirements.
  Because clearly, if your 92-year-old dad can't log into a workforce compliance portal from his nursing home bed, he's just lazy.

• Accelerated Medicaid cuts to states.
  Translation: less money for facilities, fewer staff, fewer beds, and a whole lot more “Sorry, we don’t take Medicaid anymore.”

• The power to kill nonprofits at whim.
  If the feds decide a nonprofit is a “threat,” it loses tax-exempt status.
  No hearing. No due process. Just poof — gone.
  Yes, even elder care programs. Yes, based on secret evidence. Yes, this is real life.

• Dumping federal costs onto broke-ass states.
  States now have to cover the Medicaid tab without federal support — and guess what they’ll cut first?

  • Poor people

  • Disabled people

  • Old people

So what happens next?

• Nursing homes shut down.

• Medicaid approvals get slashed.

• Entire counties lose every long-term care bed they had.

Welcome to dystopia. Picture 3,000 Medicaid patients in a rural state with nowhere to go and no one to care. But hey — tax cuts for billionaires!

• Banning the states from saving themselves.
  Provider tax restrictions mean states can’t even raise their own funds to backfill the cuts.
  So:

  • Nursing homes go broke

  • Patients get booted

  • Families get destroyed

  • And you still think this is about “draining the swamp”?

Congrats, MAGA.
You didn’t just drain the swamp. You drained the oxygen out of your own grandmother’s hospital wing — and called it patriotism.

So what happens when the funding runs out?

What happens when my dad's nursing home starts cutting night shift nurses, or when the on-call RN gets replaced by a single overworked aide trying to cover two wings and a memory care unit?

What happens when they skip a fall check, and he ends up in the hospital because they cut staffing below safe levels — to save money?

What happens when his food gets cheaper, his meds get late, and his dignity gets flushed along with the “fiscal responsibility” talking points on Fox News?

You Didn’t Just Vote Against the System.

You Voted Against My Father.

And he’s not the only one.

• Every dementia patient whose care team gets cut.

• Every double amputee vet relying on skilled nursing.

• Every grandma in a Medicaid bed whose kids can’t afford private-pay rates at $14,000/month.

Do you even know what $14,000 a month buys you in long-term care? A shared room. Maybe. If there’s space. That’s $168,000 a year to die with dignity in a clean bed — and that doesn’t even include meds, therapy, or diapers.

You voted for the party that wants to pull the plug on that, then blame “personal responsibility.”

That’s who you voted to abandon.
Because you wanted a president who “tells it like it is” and “owns the libs.”

Well guess what? Now you own it.
You own this cruelty. You own this betrayal.

Don’t Pretend You Didn’t Know.

I know some of you — one of you in particular — are probably thinking:

“That’s not what I voted for. I didn’t mean that.”

But you did. Because when someone shows you who they are — and keeps showing you — and you still vote for them anyway?

You’re not being tricked. You’re being complicit.

This Is Personal Now.

Not that it ever wasn't...

So if the day comes when my father loses his care, when he’s shoved onto a waitlist or bounced from a facility because the money ran out, don’t tell me you’re sorry.

Don’t send thoughts and prayers.

Don’t pretend this wasn’t your fault.

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Final Thought for My Fellow Humans Still Paying Attention:

If you’re horrified by what’s happening — good. Stay loud. Stay angry. Stay organized.

Because while they’re stripping Medicaid and burning nonprofits, they’re counting on us to stay numb.

Screw that. I’m wide awake. And I’m not going anywhere.

Skippy out. 🛸🔥