I wrote an essay (with sources! and data!) about what cutting Medicaid actually means because people don’t have good perspective on it.
I wrote an essay (with sources! and data!) about what cutting Medicaid actually means because people don’t have good perspective on it.
How will nursing homes even run? They’re built on Medicare and Medicaid. They take that check in exchange for care. They are notoriously understaffed because there’s a Medicare/Medicaid cap on how much money each patient can bring in.
If that goes away, then what? Where do the elderly go? Nursing homes have also been taking in a slice of homeless with physical situations that don’t allow for being discharged back to street. Usually paralyzed or partially paralyzed individuals. Where would they be placed?
A single mom working 2 jobs probably can’t take in a 24hr care, physically dependent, cognitively lost beyond their own first name, urine/poop leaking out as it happens, and/or physically violent Alzheimer’s parent.
Vice-dachshund Vance hinted at this on the campaign trail, once, that families should simply be taking in their own.
I worked in a nursing home/assisted living facility for a little while for minimum wage. I quit when I found out that they were expanding the memory care unit without increasing staffing requirements. Most of my 8 hour shifts were by myself caring for 9 adults with severe dementia that required help with everything…and they were talking about increasing that to 13 residents. I left because I did not want to be responsible for one of them falling and getting hurt while I’m stuck trying to clean up another one that forgot how to use a toilet about 10 years ago.
There is no proposed solution. The proposed solution is for the poor people to just die already.