I was reading another diary about frugal living and it sure made me think ! How many will have to rethink their entire way of life if McConnell gets his tax cut in the name of healthcare passed? Grandma or Gramps thrown in the street? Can’t let that happen. Saving for emergency health needs ! Taking in grown kids and their kids ! Cutting back and selling off and downsizing. Have any of the people who depend on Medicaid thought about any of this? I say they are in a gaze over their one issue voter stand. This will hit them in the pocketbook as bad if not worse than the Financial crisis. Businesses will fall off due to consumers cutting back and job loss. One better let their Trump loving family know what is about to happen and get ready for Granny to come home and interrupt any of their plans because they are going to have to be full time caregivers on limited resources. I have taken a Daddy with Alzheimers for years before we got him 24 hour care thanks to Medicaid/Medicare and he lived 7 years longer. It was a full time job. I also have and still provide housing for grown kids in school. Not easy at all !
The thing they need to see is that budget coming down cutting out Meals on Wheels. I dare say charities will be affected as well. This whole thing is a Republican baby but we all gotta rock it. Everyone of us.
I do not think people realize just how bad things are about to get in their own household.
Nursing Home Evictions
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Nobody wants to go to a nursing home, but for many persons it is absolutely necessary. Once a person has become adjusted to life in a nursing home, a forced move to another nursing home can be devastating. A change in surroundings for someone whose life is so dependent on that environment can cause long-lasting trauma. This is reflected in federal regulations that require careful planning of these moves. However, there have been many situations where facilities have not followed the law.
One client in a nursing home had problems with Medicaid. He was not getting his full Social Security because money for child-support was being withheld. This resulted in a balance owed to the nursing home and the administrator started leaning on the family to pay up. He threatened to put the resident in a taxi and have him dropped off at his former residence. Doing so would be a serious violation of state and federal regulations, as was making such a threat. The administrator's flagrant violation of the law cost his employer the amount claimed to be owed, plus costs.
As undesirable as nursing-home placement is, there are important rights that protect the residents. Some of the most important pertain to evictions, or "involuntary discharge."
Federal law offers many protections against involuntary eviction from a nursing home. These protections cover facilities that participate in either Medicare or Medicaid. If even a few of the nursing homes’ residents participate in either program, the entire facility and all of its residents—including those not receiving direct benefits under either program—are subject to the transfer and discharge laws and regulations.
These protections are about to be blown away with Trumpcare.
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