30,000 LA nursing home patients face eviction as Medicaid is cut

[nolabear]

Last edited Fri May 11, 2018, 11:59 PM - Edit history (1)

Louisiana is sending eviction notices to more than 30,000 people due to budget cuts and the Jindal inspired decision not to accept Obamacare Medicare extensions. Maybe-MAYBE they will find the money but so far a lot of elderly and disabled are very, very frightened.


https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/05/09/us/louisiana-medicaid-cuts-nursing-homes-evictions/index.html

[Yonnie3]

1. It is Medicaid that was cut, not Medicare.

Two different programs.

[nolabear]

6. Damn. I'm on automatic today. Fixed it.

[Yonnie3]

10. It's evil anyway.

Some of these people in the homes exhausted their Medicare, then had to sell nearly all their possession to pay, and only then went on Medicaid. It was bad before, now it is unspeakable.

[democratisphere]

2. This drumpfian budget cut of poor elderly patients is mind blowingly

outrageous! GD I loathe the idiotic GOP.

[Kajun Gal]

3. Yeh, Medicaid and after the lawmakers are paid off it won't happen.

Check out Louisianavoice.com. Tom Aswell. We have all lived here long enough to know that the mysterious money will appear. It's Louisiana! Gotta love it!

[nolabear]

7. Oh yeah. I'm well aware.

You know the old saying, in Louisiana an honest politician is one who stays bought.

[Kajun Gal]

4. And Stelley Plan shouldn't have been done away with!

A bit of research for ya. Thanks, Bobby J.!

[Princess Turandot]

5. Many nursing homes would close as a result, since Medicaid is the largest payer for most of them..

That will also create a problem for hospitals, who transfer patients needing rehabilitative care as well as ones needing long term maintenance care to nursing centers. (Often enough, the same centers provide both kinds of services. While a hospital may have an inpatient rehab unit, those primarily exist to bring patients such as stroke victims to the point that they can be transferred out to a non-acute care setting.)

And does this include ventilator dependent patients??

Cruel and stupid.

[ooky]

8. This is what people vote for when they vote for Republicans. Now they are

being told to come pick up Mom and Dad. Louisiana is only the first state. This could end up becoming reality in many states from cuts in their federal Medicaid money.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Horrific...please kick