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Anonymous wrote:If you’re in Maryland and under Maryland Medicaid, your elderly parents can get home care at home paid by Medicaid if they aren’t bad enough to be institutionalized but need a daily caregiver to come in and cook, clean, bathe them and go to the grocery store for them. Medicare is the one that bizarrely doesn’t have a home care option. Medicaid does

And that's what Harris proposed - Medicare would now cover some forms of home care in order that families did not have to divest all their assets in order qualify for it as they would on Medicaid.

So basically, and inheritance preserver.

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re in Maryland and under Maryland Medicaid, your elderly parents can get home care at home paid by Medicaid if they aren’t bad enough to be institutionalized but need a daily caregiver to come in and cook, clean, bathe them and go to the grocery store for them. Medicare is the one that bizarrely doesn’t have a home care option. Medicaid does

And that's what Harris proposed - Medicare would now cover some forms of home care in order that families did not have to divest all their assets in order qualify for it as they would on Medicaid.

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Anonymous wrote:What are these MAGA supporters going to do when they cannot obtain Medicaid for their parents' LTC? This is no longer a hypothetical with plans to gut Medicaid and similar programs in order to pay for the imminent Trump tax cut. And there will not be the same number of folks out there to provide care for seniors if many of the people holding these jobs are deported, including people who may be denaturalized.

The kinds of Medicaid cuts the Republicans have talked about — repealing or cutting funding for the ACA Medicaid expansion and/or funding Medicaid with a block grant to each state — are also going to weaken the finances of rural hospitals, many of which already are on the brink of closing. MAGA gonna have to drive to the big city for ER and other hospital care.

They'll never put 2 and 2 together.

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Anonymous wrote:The government is never going to toss people with Alzheimer's and no money onto the street to die so this is all just fear mongering.

Are you aware of how difficult it is to obtain Medicaid? If it is put into a block grant, there is going to be no way that there will be enough money for all those in need.

Dp. Not it’s not. I just got my state’s version of Medicaid for my newly arrived father. It was a 3 month wait but it wasn’t hard.

He's not a citizen but gets medicaid? How does that work?

It works in a state where anyone income eligible can get the state Medicaid. Even before the expansion to illegal immigrants (which my father isn’t) green card holders were eligible (my father is one). Now, anyone can get it if they are poor, and it made the wait times extremely long.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean if you don’t pick her up from the hospital or wherever she is before she goes to a Medicaid nursing home, what are they gonna do? You just have to be cold hearted enough to wait them out.

I think OP is suggesting that there will not be "Medicaid nursing homes," not how will they get admitted.

The hospitals aren’t going to just evict ppl into the street. Certainly not at 70+ and nursing care level

They've already been caught doing it. Once they can't bill for the room, medicare is not paying indefinitely, they are going to discharge

Anonymous wrote:I am 100% worried about this. We are looking into memory care for my dad right now. They have 2-3 years savings. After that, the two options are literal abandonment vs. spending all of our kids' college savings and our own retirement savings on his care.

The silver lining is that by cutting Medicare, people will die faster and won't live long enough to need Medicaid for skilled nursing or memory care [/sarcasm].

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in Maryland and under Maryland Medicaid, your elderly parents can get home care at home paid by Medicaid if they aren’t bad enough to be institutionalized but need a daily caregiver to come in and cook, clean, bathe them and go to the grocery store for them. Medicare is the one that bizarrely doesn’t have a home care option. Medicaid does

And that's what Harris proposed - Medicare would now cover some forms of home care in order that families did not have to divest all their assets in order qualify for it as they would on Medicaid.

So basically, and inheritance preserver.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in Maryland and under Maryland Medicaid, your elderly parents can get home care at home paid by Medicaid if they aren’t bad enough to be institutionalized but need a daily caregiver to come in and cook, clean, bathe them and go to the grocery store for them. Medicare is the one that bizarrely doesn’t have a home care option. Medicaid does

And that's what Harris proposed - Medicare would now cover some forms of home care in order that families did not have to divest all their assets in order qualify for it as they would on Medicaid.

So basically, and inheritance preserver.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in Maryland and under Maryland Medicaid, your elderly parents can get home care at home paid by Medicaid if they aren’t bad enough to be institutionalized but need a daily caregiver to come in and cook, clean, bathe them and go to the grocery store for them. Medicare is the one that bizarrely doesn’t have a home care option. Medicaid does

And that's what Harris proposed - Medicare would now cover some forms of home care in order that families did not have to divest all their assets in order qualify for it as they would on Medicaid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government is never going to toss people with Alzheimer's and no money onto the street to die so this is all just fear mongering.

Are you aware of how difficult it is to obtain Medicaid? If it is put into a block grant, there is going to be no way that there will be enough money for all those in need.

Dp. Not it’s not. I just got my state’s version of Medicaid for my newly arrived father. It was a 3 month wait but it wasn’t hard.

He's not a citizen but gets medicaid? How does that work?

It works in a state where anyone income eligible can get the state Medicaid. Even before the expansion to illegal immigrants (which my father isn’t) green card holders were eligible (my father is one). Now, anyone can get it if they are poor, and it made the wait times extremely long.

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in Maryland and under Maryland Medicaid, your elderly parents can get home care at home paid by Medicaid if they aren’t bad enough to be institutionalized but need a daily caregiver to come in and cook, clean, bathe them and go to the grocery store for them. Medicare is the one that bizarrely doesn’t have a home care option. Medicaid does

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The government is never going to toss people with Alzheimer's and no money onto the street to die so this is all just fear mongering.

Are you aware of how difficult it is to obtain Medicaid? If it is put into a block grant, there is going to be no way that there will be enough money for all those in need.

Dp. Not it’s not. I just got my state’s version of Medicaid for my newly arrived father. It was a 3 month wait but it wasn’t hard.

He's not a citizen but gets medicaid? How does that work?

It works in a state where anyone income eligible can get the state Medicaid. Even before the expansion to illegal immigrants (which my father isn’t) green card holders were eligible (my father is one). Now, anyone can get it if they are poor, and it made the wait times extremely long.

There are about a half dozen states that provide Medicaid to at least some people regardless of immigration status, so long as they are eligible by income. But these states can only use state funds for any coverage of undocumented immigrants in these cases — it’s illegal to use federal Medicaid funds for this purpose— and usually the populations covered are kids and/or adults younger than 50, not people who would get nursing home care.

Here is a KFF Health News story about this state-funded coverage:

States Expand Health Coverage for Immigrants as GOP Hits Biden Over Border Crossings

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/states-health-coverage-medicaid-immigrants-expansion/#:~:text=Subscribe%20to%20KFF%20Health%20News,program%20for%20low%2Dincome%20people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are these MAGA supporters going to do when they cannot obtain Medicaid for their parents' LTC? This is no longer a hypothetical with plans to gut Medicaid and similar programs in order to pay for the imminent Trump tax cut. And there will not be the same number of folks out there to provide care for seniors if many of the people holding these jobs are deported, including people who may be denaturalized.

The kinds of Medicaid cuts the Republicans have talked about — repealing or cutting funding for the ACA Medicaid expansion and/or funding Medicaid with a block grant to each state — are also going to weaken the finances of rural hospitals, many of which already are on the brink of closing. MAGA gonna have to drive to the big city for ER and other hospital care.

This is spot on.
Lots of Medicaid monies were block grants to states, eligible for federal match, etc. etc, and that's why there's such a difference in what resources you can get by state. If MAGA follows their wishes, it won't matter. The states still need that fed money. Reimbursement rates (which are dismal) will be worse, and hospitals will close.