1. La Dependencia Crítica de Medicaid en Hogares de Ancianos.
Medicaid es el principal pagador de la atención a largo plazo en Estados Unidos, cubriendo la mayoría de las estancias en hogares de ancianos. Los recortes masivos proyectados pondrían en riesgo la viabilidad financiera de estas instalaciones, llevando a cierres generalizados.
- Medicaid pays for 23rds of all nursing home stays.
- Worth noting. Like 80 percent of people in nursing homes are on medicaid. Many too young for medicare.
- 62.7 of all nursing home residents are paid for by medicaid.
- 14 nursing homes may close because of the medicaid cuts. And the gop doesnt care.
- 25 of nursing homes across the country could close.
- I used to represent nursing homes when i was in private law practice. Most are open because of the number of medicaid residents, even though margins are tight.
2. Consecuencias Humanas: Desalojos y Riesgo de Muerte.
La pérdida de la cobertura de Medicaid significa que millones de ancianos, muchos de ellos con demencia o discapacidades severas, serán expulsados de sus centros de cuidado. Para aquellos sin familia o recursos, esto representa una amenaza directa a su supervivencia.
- Basically were gonna be kicking old people out of senior care facilities.
- 70 of people in nursing homes are on medicaid. Theyre in nursing homes because no one else can or will care for them. Theyre all gonna get kicked out in 30 days.
- Not just families. A lot of elderly people dont have family. They have nowhere to go if their medicaid stops paying for their nursing home. Theyll be disabled, some unable to walk, and out on the street.
- Will they just push them outside leave them to die?
- Medicaid cuts will cause her already short-staffed nursing home to be even more unable to take care of her.
- Nursing homes will have to discharge medicaid patients once medicaid stops paying. Theyll dump them anywhere they can. Relatives, hospitals, churches, police stations, or just the street. Most will end up dead within weeks without skilled care.
3. La Carga Transferida a Familias y Cuidadores.
Las familias se verán obligadas a asumir el rol de cuidadores a tiempo completo para sus parientes ancianos o enfermos, lo que implica abandonar sus empleos y enfrentar la dificultad de proporcionar cuidados especializados sin la infraestructura o el entrenamiento adecuado.
- Are you taking grandma home with you? maybe you can still afford an in home caregiver a few hours a day, maybe not.
- If my mothers nursing home closes or removes their medicaid residents, i will have to quit my job, move back to the us, and care for her because my 86-yo father cannot do it on his own.
- Losing medicaid will push aging grandparents into their kids homes- who are often ill equipped to care for the specific needs they were in care homes for in the first place.
- Wait until they have to bring grandma home with them from her nursing facility for failure to pay due to medicaid and medicare cuts.
- You ready for brief changes?
- It will pull adult kids, often women, out of the workforce, and could result in the entire multigenerational family losing.
4. El Proceso de Empobrecimiento para Calificar.
Para acceder a Medicaid para la atención a largo plazo, los individuos deben pasar por un riguroso proceso de "gasto de activos" (spend down), que exige la liquidación de casi todas sus posesiones, incluyendo ahorros y propiedades, antes de ser elegibles.
- My mom died in a nursing home - on medicaid. With alzheimers. But not before spending down over 200k to qualify.
- Medicaid requires these seniors to have no assets, so families must sell homes and give all proceeds to the government this is a last ditch support not a benefit when you need it most.
- Spend down all of grandmas savings so she can get on medicaid and we can put her in long-term care is the reality for most middle class families.
- Medicaid starts paying when the nursing home resident has nothing. The house is gone, every farm acre sold, every tractor, every vehicle, everything is gone. 0 assets.
- My neighbors were both put in a nursing home, their daughter was told they would have to sell their house and deplete savings before medicaid would cover them.