My mother is currently in a SNF with severe dementia in California. Medi-Cal pays and she pays her share of cost and has 35 dollars a month left over. My question is if the new health care bill passes and it looks like it will. What is going to happen to the elderly? With Medicaid being gutted how are the elderly going to be taken care of. Nursing homes funding from medi cal medicaid will be no more meaning nursing homes that accept Medicaid will be shutting down or take self pay patients only. What will happen to the elderly that are poor that rely on Medicaid for their health care? I see a very bleak future here in America if you are not well off financially. Why is the richest nation in the world turning it's back on the elderly the poor and the disabled?
And the caregiver child will probably also be tasked with investigating which Medicare plan the parent will have for the next year (if Medicare is gutted). Not the Medicare supplement, but the whole shebang!
Healthy workers are more productive. Having women in the work force has increased productivity and growth. And what is the MOST frustrating for me is that WE DON'T LET PEOPLE DIE IN THE STREETS. We treat them in emergency room, the MOST expensive and least medically sound option of all.
We are all paying for healthcare; we're just not getting our money's worth.
Beats me how it's evil to have millions of Americans getting health care insurance that did not have care before.
Honestly, with so many in the U.S. Senate not happy campers regarding the new health care bill, I doubt it will pass the Senate. Thus, it will keep going back to the drawing board over and over until there is something that everyone agrees upon.
I know AARP is fighting this current Bill big time, and they are a huge lobbying group for retirees.