“Rather annoying that the Medicare we paid into for decades doesn’t pay anything for nursing home care.”
But it does. Here is how it works. Federal medicare will pay for nursing home, physical therapy (limited), and final hospice care. But you can’t own any assets in your name or the state seizes them. The states have a slick money laundering operation as the stewards of how it is controlled. The feds pay out medicare but the states seize your assets and keep the proceeds for themselves the state. If they are going to seize property assets the proceeds should go back into the federal system not to the state. The states claim they are taking these to offset their costs. Except it is not costing them, it is costing the federal tax payers.
I think that is Medicaid, not Medicare