More than 30,000 nursing home eviction notices to be sent in Louisiana Thursday...

[Elwood P Dowd]

19. Former House Speaker Jim Tucker says, "If those notices go out, they will kill people"

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/05/people_who_are_elderly_disable.html

The Louisiana Nursing Home Association said the Medicaid cuts would cause most of its facilities in the state to close, meaning people with private insurance would also lose their homes. The industry employs 25,000 people in Louisiana, many of whom would no longer be employed if the Medicaid cut is implemented, representatives said.

Other financial problems could occur for nursing homes once the notices go out, industry leaders said. It could lead banks to seize assets or try to collect on loans the nursing homes have taken out. 

CommCare Corp., which runs 12 nursing homes around the state, said about 1,000 of its 1,600 residents would lose Medicaid benefits under the proposed cut. The  company's leader, former House Speaker Jim Tucker, said if the notices are sent, his company will have to start "preparing for the worst." 

Tucker also said some residents -- such as those who don't have a family that can take them in -- could die from the stress. Many aren't aware that their Medicaid services are on the chopping block, he said. 

"If those notices go out, they will kill people," Tucker, a Republican who represented the New Orleans area, said last month in an interview.