NYT - Under Trumpcare - you will need to be MORE disabled to qualify & your family might be required

[womanofthehills]

to pay a portion of nursing home care.


Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes

Under federal law, state Medicaid programs are required to cover nursing home care. But state officials decide how much to pay facilities, and states under budgetary pressure could decrease the amount they are willing to pay or restrict eligibility for coverage.

“The states are going to make it harder to qualify medically for needing nursing home care,” predicted Toby S. Edelman, a senior policy attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy. “They’d have to be more disabled before they qualify for Medicaid assistance.”

States might allow nursing homes to require residents’ families to pay for a portion of their care, she added. Officials could also limit the types of services and days of nursing home care they pay for, as Medicare already does.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/science/medicaid-cutbacks-elderly-nursing-homes.html?_r=0

[roamer65]

1. A lot of assisted living centers and nursing homes will go out of business.

Elderly neglect and abuse will go through the roof. A lot of elderly will simply be abandoned by their families, especially Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. All this and the money goes to the already very wealthy. What a nasty un-American bunch of crap!

[nancy1942]

3. Pay a portion with what?

These people cannot afford to be there as it is. Without Medicaid they won't be able to stay there at all. If they could afford it they would not be on Medicaid in the first place. I know very few seniors who could afford even a month in a care facility! Those Republican monsters need to see how the average person actually lives out here in this freak show; except they really don't care if we live or die. I think they actually prefer that we just die and get it over with. Their priority is them.

[luvMIdog]

4. how nice to assume everyone has wealthy families that love them and would love to pay

[womanofthehills]

5. and what does "more disabled" mean?

This is so sick!!