The great Pawlenty unwinding for low income seniors.

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A friend who does contract mail order prescription filling for Minnesota Assisted Living facilities says that Pawlenty;s unwinding will on August 1st stop state funded contributions for medicines to Assisted Living facilities. He is not sure if about nursing home drugs as that is someone else.

Circuit breaker low income tax rebates for low income folks are also cut for next year as are increases in Social Security. State medicare funds also pick up Medicare premiums for the extremely low income, that may be cut or reduced. That may take half to more than some peoples monthly income. That and the donut hole ought to put a whole lot of seniors into their children's homes by Christmas.

Metro mobility will no longer run to many of the senior buildings, assisted living facilities and nursing homes. Not everyone has a scooter to get them to the bus stop and with a thousand extra wheel chairs/scooters the bus system in the metro should grind to a snails pace.

That is what we know.