[Intolerant in NJ]

The prospect of asset seizures raises people's hackles,,,once worked in a nursing home with a woman who had had a fairly long stay there and had been forced to spend down her assets to pay for her care until she was eligible for Medicaid. Since she was widowed, she was eventually required by the system to sell her house to continue to pay until Medicaid would start to pick up the bill - gradually her condition improved to the point where she could have lived outside the home - but of course by then her home was gone and she had no place to go which she could afford given her now impoverished status - I lost track of her about that time, but her prospects seem to be to continue to live in the home on Medicaid funding thanks to the situation Medicaid had brought about......

[hinckley buzzard]

Ohio has a program in which Medicaid will pay for Assisted Living, in lieu of long term care. It cuts the cost by probably two thirds. It takes a designated program though because assisted living is not considered a health care facility per se.