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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He gets the care he needs until he runs out of money, [b]and then medicaid pays.[/b] He needs to move to a facility which accepts medicaid. They probably now need to live separately. As a couple they only have to spend 50% of their assets on his care. You mother will not be destitute. They will spend thru their assets, that's what happens.[/quote]
STOP SAYING THATTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
People please get educated! 
Medicaid is a program to which you have to apply!!!! It is not a given! 
And people can be broker than a joke and get denied!!!!@
What the heck in life just freaking kicks in!! 
I know folks mean well, but this advice is just bad and if people follow it they will be in a world of trouble.[/quote]

Yes it's hard to get medicaid to pay, but when the person is in the nursing home and runs out of money, [b]medicaid is forced to step in.[/b] What is the alternative? Wheeling grandpa onto the street? They can't go after children's money. For our grandparents we have gotten medicaid to pay up when they run out of money. [/quote]
I am not being a smart ass, I swear I am not, so please understand me when I tell you that you are dead wrong. Medicaid is not a program that just finds people and who have run out of money and just pays their bills.  There is nothing no where in this country where some program just ups and pays your bill because you cannot. It is a program to which you need to apply. It is a tedious process, and you can get denied. Yes, you can not have funds and be broke and sick and your medicaid application be denied. And if you do not think a nursing home will not come after you for unpaid bills, you need to look up filial support laws. 
And if you do not think they will not kick people out, then your also mistaken. Not only that, look up some stories of places where people have put their loved ones that are medicaid pending, or take all medicaid and how some of these people are treated at some of these facilities. [/quote]

[b]No one is assuming that Medicaid just miraculously shows up and starts handing out money.[/b]  You are a little over the top.  And trust me, I think we all know that Medicaid is not the best thing that can happen to you -- it's not the lottery nor does it mean you are entitled to cadillac care.[/quote]
yes they are assuming that did you not read the post to which I was responding????
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I was the pp you responded to. Obviously I didn't think medicaid just rides in and passes out money. In both cases that we recently went through- the nursing home staff helped us fill out the forms and get medicaid. It was a process. Both patients had already been in the nursing home for over a year before they depleted assets enough for medicaid. I think the nursing home dealt with this situation all the time. Some states are easier I believe to deal with. [/quote]

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