Grandma can live in the garage, right?

[Captain Zero]

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250502197/880-billion-in-medicaid-cuts-would-be-devastating-for-nursing-homes-and-their-residents

Nursing home stocks will also be falling and nursing homes will close or offer worse services (if that would be possible).

[gab13by13]

1. I feel the people in nursing homes and feel for the staff

who are way over-worked and it's going to get worse, unbelievable.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The goal is for old people to die.

The billionaires don't want money going to useless eaters who soak up money that belongs to the rich.

[LisaL]

2. Grandma will have to live somewhere since

nursing homes are going to close.
But that's what MAGATs voted for.

[MineralMan]

4. Most people who have an elder parent or grandparent living in

a nursing home do not realize that Medicaid is paying for that. They simply don't know. Someone is paying is all they know.

When grandma gets kicked out of the nursing home, though, they'll find out. Won't that be a surprise?

[highplainsdem]

6. Most people don't realize nursing home care, especially dementia care, can be as high as $100K a year,

or higher in some places.

[MineralMan]

10. You're absolutely right.

End of life health care is hugely expensive and labor intensive. I've been through it with both my and my wife's parents. All their financial planning went down the drain faster than you can believe. It's possible to extend life far beyond its natural span these days, and people opt to do that very often. Problem is that quality of life deteriorates to a horrendous degree if you try to delay death beyond a reasonable time.

As we all grow older, we need to take those things into consideration for ourselves. Plan for it before you are no longer able to make plans. If you don't, your children and grandchildren will have to make those decisions. It's a horrible burden to place on their shoulders, frankly.

Hard to think about, yes, but essential.

[highplainsdem]

5. I have relatives living in a rural area where hospitals and nursing homes are already scarce. The

kind of area where specialists might be available at the nearest hospital only one week a month. In another rural area with a small hospital less than ten miles from the farm my grandfather owned, their hospital has had to suspend some services/programs and get local aid via a higher local sales tax. The spending cuts in this bill will shut a lot of those small-town hospitals down. Especially with the Medicare cuts the bill will also trigger because it adds so much to the country's debt.

But Trump and the politicians supporting him do not care about the rural areas that voted for him.

[sheilahi]

7. Only if

Only if she agrees to change the oil while she's out there.

[Progressive dog]

8. That's the plan

That's always been the plan. Think of all the money saved that .Trump and his rich pals will have to spend.

[totodeinhere]

9. I have resolved to never go to a nursing home or long term care facility.

I will stay in my house even if I have to crawl around on my hands and knees. Anything is better than a nursing home.