House budget eliminates nursing home funding through Medicaid (nearly a million lose coverage) [View all]

[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.