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By Abby Goodnough @ NYTimes.com, May 12
Some examples of people unhappy with Obamacare and their reasons.
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Another Times' health-care-related piece I found useful to read, on the looming crisis with Medicaid regarding long-term care, exacerbated by the availability of gene testing. The elephant in the room which rarely gets mentioned by either party is that Medicare doesn't cover the nursing home by grandma. More and more grandmas are now gaming the system and buying long-term insurance if they are high risk and not if they aren't. In the article is the elusive figure, hard to find: 2/3 of nursing home patients are on Medicaid, far from being just for "poor people" under 65, and it's looking like that number is going to go up:
New Gene Tests Pose a Threat to Insurers
By Gina Kolata, May 12
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 10:18am
related: the red state would love to get the Medicaid money back (to help pay grannie's nursing home bills, natch) without having to offer Planned Parenthood; baby red states would surely follow if the big one is successful:
Texas Seeks Medicaid Money It Gave Up Over Planned Parenthood Ban
By Abby Goodnough @ NYTimes, May 15
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 12:57pm
We got lucky with one of these policies before insurance companies realized they'd lose money.
Care for Seniors is a huge scandal, neglect bordering on mass torture - I can't quite figure out why it's not a national issue. Only when it hits "our troops" do people seem to care, and even then, not so much.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 3:44pm
Taxpayers gonna be paying for the boomers in nursing homes one way or another, state if not federal. It's just a ridiculous shell game that no one will admit is going on. Because they want to hide those taxes and not have to face the truth and just cover it with Medicare. People would freak because their Medicare tax bite would go way up, but they are paying more for it now doing it this more hidden tax way.
Edit to add: states like Texas might try to keep the cost low by letting really bad cheap nursing homes stay open, but that kind of shell game doesn't last for long when the bedsores lawsuit victories start piling up....
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 3:58pm
Everyone has a Mum & Dad - nursing homes don't much discriminate - they treat everyone just as shitty, unless you're wealthy enough to pay over $10K a month and can find a facility with space. That may include most politicians, but even the upper middle class bracket should find it horrifying & unacceptable.
But like so many things on our home turf, it doesn't make sense but we sustain it somehow.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 4:05pm
Except for a very few ultra high end set ups, moreover, even the 10/k/mo payors are sharing staff with medicaid supported residents, so any adjustment to staff/resident ratios that results from medicaid cuts with bite their loved ones in the ass,so to speak...
WHAT'S THAT SMELL? DO YOU SMELL THAT SMELL? IT'S THE SMELL OF A REPUGNANT VICTORY-AND IT SMELLS LIKE FECAL INCONTINENCE
by jollyroger on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 8:11pm
And yet another piece of interest at the Times, on major insurance co. bilking Medicare with the Medicare Advantage Plans:
A Whistle-Blower Tells of Health Insurers Bilking Medicare
By Mary Williams Walsh, May 15
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 10:22am