House budget eliminates nursing home funding through Medicaid (nearly a million lose coverage)

[Omaha Steve]

http://underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/house-budget-eliminates-nursing-home-funding-through-medicaid/



Apr 3

Posted by btchakir

Under the proposed budget resolution passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives, nearly a million nursing home residents could immediately lose coverage for nursing home care. Further, all of the standards that govern nursing home care today could disappear.

Republicans are saying that their Budget Resolution does nothing to change Medicare for new beneficiaries until 2022. However, for current Medicare beneficiaries living in nursing homes, the overwhelming majority of whom rely on Medicaid, the impact of the Budget Resolution would be immediate and devastating.

If you have an elderly parent whose nursing home care is being paid through Medicaid, in 30 states — so far — the legal responsibility for those bills would then fall on you.

FULL story at link.

[DURHAM D]

1. From April 3rd of this year?

Edit: I see it is this year but the article is almost 3 months old.

[Omaha Steve]

4. I heard about this while mom was going into a nursing home on Medicaid

I forgot to post about it until today. There are better and newer articles. But this shows how bad the word is getting around on this, even on the DU.

[mucifer]

2. It seems like another piece of crap passed by the house and shot down in the senate.

We would have heard a lot about this if it passed through both houses and was signed by the President

[riverwalker]

3. chilling

"Since 1965, the Medicaid program has kept nursing homes from requesting or requiring contributions from residents’ families. Adult children have never been legally responsible for their parents’ nursing home care under Medicaid. That provision disappears if Medicaid is repealed."

I wonder how many Freepers know the Republican budget would put a lien on their homes and bank accounts to pay for Grandma's nursing home.