Kellyanne Conway: People Who Lose Medicaid Coverage Can Get a Job- fortune

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Originally Posted by NLVgal

Actually Medicaid pays for most nursing home stays.

In the USA, approx 62% of all nursing home patients are paid for via Medicaid.

Why Medicaid Takes Up One-Tenth Of The Federal Budget : Shots - Health News : NPR

Medicaid spending in the USA is as follows(percent of medicaid budget spent, by group)
19% children
19% adults that aren't disabled and aren't elderly ( many of these have jobs currently)
40% disabled (could be in nursing homes or various care facilities)
21% aged/elderly many in nursing homes

Quote from the above link:
"Inpatient nursing care is some of the priciest health care out there, so even though seniors accounted for only 9 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries in 2014, they used 21 percent of Medicaid dollars"

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Originally Posted by Elliott_CA

Next up: Republicans walking down the halls of nursing homes, telling 90-year-olds in wheelchairs on Medicaid to get off their sorry butts and go get a job

this is the key. Many Republicans simply want 100% of the population working themselves right into the grave. Hell if they could they would have the dying required to dig their own graves .



Really WTH is the problem with America that we are supposed to work until we are too old and worn out to stand.

What on earth is wrong with the idea of people working less and spending more time with friends and family.

i guess i will never understand why Rs think the whole idea in life is to grind until it is over.