Even earlier they made sure their elderly relatives moved to New Orleans or other cities and towns in Louisiana.
The deal is the food is great, the weather is warm (an important thing to many elderly folks), nursing care was inexpensive, as were in-home workers to do housework and so forth.
Rent was low.
No one knows how many elderly poor were living in LA before Katrina, but it was a whopping big number.
Do the elderly poor remain on Medicaid if they never paid enough into SS to be eligible for SS and Medicare, or do they just move to Medicare no matter their work history?
I'd never thought of that, but it might be a significant factor in how many are on Medicaid in some areas.