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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMedicaid cuts will devastate nursing homes
Many middle-class Americans are unaware that the huge cost of nursing home care which in some areas can run over $100,000 a year is not covered by Medicare. Those who need it and cannot pay for it themselves can generally receive coverage from Medicaid, though they usually must spend down all their savings first.
When all is said and done, Medicaid pays the bills for over 60 percent of nursing home residents people who cannot care for themselves and without Medicaid would have literally nowhere to go.
When all is said and done, Medicaid pays the bills for over 60 percent of nursing home residents people who cannot care for themselves and without Medicaid would have literally nowhere to go.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/04/house-gop-just-voted-to-slash-medicaid-which-pays-for-60-percent-of-people-in-nursing-homes/
Republicans are heartless assholes who only want tax cuts for the wealthy and increased spending for their corporate weapons manufacturing cronies.
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Medicaid cuts will devastate nursing homes (Original Post)
SHRED
May 2017
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greymattermom
(5,754 posts)1. And those old folks will be coming home
to live with them.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. The Repub base is very brainwashed
They refuse to see what that party is doing to them.
wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)3. My mom is on medicaid in a nursing facility...
There is literally no one who can care for her (with her health and other aging issues) if she loses that aid, myself and one sister are at/near sixty and have low incomes. I am unemployed due to some health
issues and (not eligible for disability). Thugs don't care if we all die...just hurry it up so the upper incomes can have more, more and yet more....
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)4. Been there with my Mother.
She gone now.
I hope things work out ok.
wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)6. Thanks...nt
SHRED
(28,136 posts)5. I hope they don't cut Medicaid
I hope it all works out for you and your loved ones.
wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)7. Thank you...nt