Moving Medicaid To State Would Put Children On Hook For Parent's Long Term Care.

[jwirr]

4. You are correct before Medicaid was created the states paid for the care of the indigent because

they had to. The programs were called Old Age Assistance. The families were held responsible for the bills - period.

When the feds took over and created Medicaid the states still had to pay for part of the care but they had the right to administer the programs and they still have that right today. Today with our lean to the right we are again getting the complaint that the family should help to pay for grandma.

They forget how many families lived in poverty in those good old days so they could pay for grandma. Of course there were also those grandmas who gave all their wealth to the children and then let the taxpayer take care of her. And this is where the demand for family to pay for the care started. I don't think much of this happens anymore because there are laws regarding giving you own wealth away so you can have assistance.

All they are going to accomplish in those 30 states is more poverty.