Great idea ! Let’s use socialized medicine to make the taxpayers foot the bill. Perfect !
Having personally had to deal with nursing homes for my father, my grandmother, and my wife’s mother, I can attest that the treatment you get here is, unless you really stay on them, absolutely horrible. The stench will get to you in some of these. Patient abuse, lack of care, untrained employees, all so they can cut their costs and make more bucks.
“Socialized healthcare” won’t solve the problem here. It’s the attitude of the management of these facilities, and the attitude is: we don’t give a hoot. Just show us the money.
If India provides quality care for less, fine. Sign me up when I get older. Otherwise, I’m not going in one.
I didn't write the rules, nor am I suggesting a change in them. The simple fact is that if someone (of any age) runs out of money and has insufficient income, they are eligible for Medicaid payments for their medical bills (including nursing homes). Children and other relatives of sick adults are not legally responsible for the care of their relatives (whatever their moral responsibility is - and I believe there to be one). This is simply the way things are, period. You want that changed, write to your Congressman and Senators - and good luck, you'll need it.