Medicaid pays for most of the 1.4 million people in nursing homes, like Ms. Jacobs. It covers 20 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of poor adults.
On Thursday, Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues in proposing steep cuts to Medicaid, part of the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Conservatives hope to roll back what they see as an expanding and costly entitlement. But little has been said about what would happen to older Americans in nursing homes if the cuts took effect.
More on the issue via New York Times.
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You really don’t understand how dire shit will.be because most people in nursing homes need twenty four hour care and maintenance of care, there’s no where else for them to go not even long term facilities can fill that gap and most people cannot afford home care this is so demonic, these people are seventy plus and now they may be homeless
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