[ClaireSolt]

Around here, when people are incarcerated in nursing homes the institution takes over their benefits and they don't have any money for gum, cigarettes, or anything else. Then the local docs begin their parades through, whereby they bill everyone in the place in one fell swoop. Podiatritists and Psychiatrists are known offenders. People can't have what they want. Instead they are exploited by that great euphemism, "health care."

[SheLion]

Around here, when people are incarcerated in nursing homes the institution takes over their benefits and they don't have any money for gum, cigarettes, or anything else. Then the local docs begin their parades through, whereby they bill everyone in the place in one fell swoop. Podiatritists and Psychiatrists are known offenders. People can't have what they want. Instead they are exploited by that great euphemism, "health care."

Up here in Maine, they have the Aroostook County Home Health care.  They do everything they can to keep people out of nursing homes.  They send out nurses to your home, and housekeepers.  It's a wonderful program. 

Even is a person is confined to their bed, they will send someone out to help them.  Run errands, feed them and help with their meds.

I know I bitch a lot about Maine, but you sure can't beat their health care!!!

Around here, when people are incarcerated in nursing homes the institution takes over their benefits and they don't have any money for gum, cigarettes, or anything else. Then the local docs begin their parades through, whereby they bill everyone in the place in one fell swoop. Podiatritists and Psychiatrists are known offenders. People can't have what they want. Instead they are exploited by that great euphemism, "health care."

Up here in Maine, they have the Aroostook County Home Health care.  They do everything they can to keep people out of nursing homes.  They send out nurses to your home, and housekeepers.  It's a wonderful program. 

Even is a person is confined to their bed, they will send someone out to help them.  Run errands, feed them and help with their meds.

I know I bitch a lot about Maine, but you sure can't beat their health care!!!

[Raycpa]

However, you do not have to pay ALL your income to the nursing home each month. You may keep:

* $59 a month for personal needs such as clothes, toiletries, sundries, etc.(This amount is increased each year in July based on increases in the cost of living adjustment).
* An amount to give to your spouse or other dependent who lives at home for a support allowance. (This important point is explained in more detail below.)
* Amounts to pay for medical items that Medicaid doesn't cover. For example, if you lose a new hearing aid that Medicaid has just paid for, Medicaid may not pay for another hearing aid right away. You can use your monthly income to replace the hearing aid instead of paying the nursing home.
* Any single wartime veteran or surviving spouse of a wartime veteran may be entitled to a pension (currently $90 month) in addition to his/her personal needs allowance.
* A limited home maintenance allowance to pay for certain expenses, including rent or mortgage, for up to 6 months, if you are reasonably expected to return home within that period of time.
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http://www.larcc.org/pamphlets/elderly/pay_nursinghome_t19.htm

at todays prices $60 doesn't buy too much, perhaps they can roll their own.