August 13, 2012
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A question
I have a question for those who support cutting medicare and reforming Social Security and things like that.
If we cut Medicare – what are we going to do with all the seniors in nursing homes? We’re very close to the point where these facilities are going to start shutting down. What do we do with these folks?What do we do with the people who are stuck in wheelchairs or using walkers or have Alzheimer?
Comments (13)
If tax money The Gov takes from it’s people were spent on what it was meant to be spent on and not wasted on what it wasn’t meant to be spent on(put your favorite Gov spending waste here) there would most likely be no problem.There is plenty of money,just too many greedy politicians in charge of it.Medicare and Social Security is not the problem.
i don’t think many of the people who want to cut medicare, medicaid, SS and things like that care. many take for granted the things our oldest generation built, fought for and the opportunities given us all because of them. it’s true that if heaven forbid the Ryan Plan ever saw the light of day the seniors living now wouldn’t be effected but those in the future would find it more difficult to come up with the money for care. it’s just one of the reasons the Catholic Church and others call the Ryan plan immoral.
I have been a nurses aide in a nursing home for 3 years and I can tell you that SO many elderly people would be screwed if they did not have medicare. Almost everyone in the nursing home has medicare, only a small fraction have private insurance. Those people need much more than just help with daily activities, they need the nursing staff to handle their mental issues as well. Even if they had help outside of a nursing home with physical activities, it would be horribly unsafe for them to be alone for an extended period of time.
I would like to hear how they would address that myself.
Good question.
An interesting perspective on the matter. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/columns/2011/may/050511cannon.aspx
@QuantumStorm - you do realize there is a difference between medicare (what I am talking about which is for elderly) and medicaid (which is what your article you linked is talking about which is for the poor)
@Kristenmomof3 - Sorry, I misread medicare as medicaid.
With that in mind, here’s another interesting article, on MEDICARE (I made sure this time haha). http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hhs/medicare-reforms
very good question
My mother stayed in her home until 9 months before her death. Those months were spent in a nursing home with the government paying all expenses. She got $50 a month to spend on her phone, hair care, and snacks. My family supplemented this to a small degree. We could not have afforded the $7000 a month it would have cost her to live there. What would we have done? Somebody would have taken her to their home. The quality of life and the sustainability of life would have been sharply reduced. We could not have provided the nursing care she needed. If funds for this program are cut, families are going to be stressed to the point of breaking. Some will have to stop working to provide care. Some will lose their own health in the process. Our country will begin to slide into an even more desperate position than it is in right now. Thank you for bringing this topic up!
I dare say that the people that want all these cuts never spent one day in a nursing home, or an elderly care facility. It’s a shame really, because if they did, they would probably be calling to double the amount of $$$ that goes into these funds. Their turn will be coming up shortly though, weather they realize it or not.
I don’t think they’ve even given that a single thought. They’ve probably never spent much time around the sick and dying to know just how badly those people need the assistance. And I’m betting they would just say “It’s your family, so you deal with it. Why should I pay into it?” Such is the mind of a self-centered conservative.
The hospitals will start shutting down! I just read that our hospital lost 9 million dollars already this year and we are going to be cut another 2 percent this Oct. when Medicare slices 2 percent off the top. We will have the chance to gain back one percent with good scores, but lets face the facts that some patients just can’t be pleased and I just got my hours cut! (Thanks for posting this)