Sarah Cope doesn't see her mother "as a parasite," but that's what she heard MAGA billionaire Elon Musk call her. On 12 Feb, Musk reposted on social media a meme of a smiling woman with the caption: "Watching Trump slash federal programs knowing it doesn't affect you because you're not a member of the Parasite Class." Cope's mother, Linda Davis, spent most of her life working in a factory to take care of her three children and her ailing husband, who died when Cope, their youngest, was 15. When Davis was 90 and had experienced ten years with dementia, her children determined that she needed a skilled nursing facility to care for her. Medicare wouldn't cover the costs. Davis only receives $150 from a pension, and her Social Security check is nowhere near the $12,000-a-month cost to move into her nursing home in Harnett County, where she lived most of her life. That's why the Davis siblings turned to Medicaid.
