Elderly parent is on Medicaid in nursing home, will they lose financing?
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Anonymous
Elderly is a medical concept in this context and 65 is the age one is considered by medical professionals to be sadly elderly. If you make it to 75+ that’s late elderly. Many Americans have serious health conditions by the time they are early to mid 60s which is why mid 70s is the average age life expectancy for Americans. The better educated and wealthier tend to live much longer because they didn’t do a lifetime of body crushing work and they had easier access to preventive health care and high quality diet etc. |
Anonymous
No, that’s not how it works. They cannot force you to pay. |
Anonymous
That’s not how it works and not allowed. |
Anonymous
Not sadly elderly, EARLY elderly Hate the autocorrect 🤬 |
Anonymous
In theory yes. I’ve had two family members die in hospice and my experience is that it’s a hair breadth away from euthanasia. Basically the ER doctors will suggest a discharge to hospice rather than any sort of aggresssjvr care. Hospice will then take them off all the medications that keep them gojng. Hospice will then recommend the HAM sandwich — haldol, morphine and Ativan — to keep the patient calm. They will gtadually increase the dosage on that. What elderly person is going to survive that combination? I’m not complaining, I’m just saying that there is more room for euthanasia than most people think. |
Anonymous
+100 Each state is free to handle the cuts to Medicaid funding how they see fit. So, no one can say what each state will do yet. |
Anonymous
It is very rare to see a lot of people in their 60s and early 70s in a nursing home. It is an anomaly if there are some, a problem that likely has been around long term or has a specific situation. I don't care what or how cultural labels came to be, but 71 is not elderly in the sense if requiring a nursing home. |
Anonymous
A 40 year old would call that elderly, but it isn't accurate. |
Anonymous
So how do people pay for nursing homes? It's very expensive |
Anonymous
Private pay, family, long term care Medicaid. |
Anonymous
The top 1% of earners paid 46% of federal income taxes in 2021, despite earning 15% of total income, according to the National Taxpayers Union. The top 10% paid 75%, while the bottom 50% paid 2%. The Joint Committee on Taxation confirms millionaires pay an average effective tax rate 3.5 times higher than most Americans. |
Anonymous
Well the really rich got their tax cut. The rest of us, not so much. Why carry water for a billionaire who could give a rat's @ss about you? Same color != same wallet. |
Anonymous
This is a little off-topic, but yes, this is basically what happens and not only to the elderly. My 40-year-old sister was dying of cancer and when he just couldn't stand it anymore, her live-in boyfriend called the hospice nurse one morning to administer the "emergency pack," which is exactly what the PP described above. My parents were planning to come to see her the next day, but hospice and boyfriend made the decision to end her life without any other family members. Fortunately, I arrived to be with her for her last breath while the boyfriend was vaccuuming the apartment and hospice nurse had gone home. |
Anonymous
yeah, oh, look, it’s the usual DCUM fallback. do you have any understanding of basic economics? https://www.pgpf.org/article/taxing-the-rich-could-raise-trillions-but-that-alone-wont-fix-our-fiscal-crisis/ please remember all those loopholes in the tax code exist for a reason. why aren’t you demanding reform from your congressional reps? |
Anonymous
Equally, why should someone who earned money transfer it to you through taxes? Pay your own way. |