[gdani]

If you happen to get poor before growing old, you go on Medicaid.

I wouldn’t deem them all leeches.

Almost everyone who ends up in a nursing home will need Medicaid (unless they die before spending all their money).

[DannyTN]

That's true, but one of the outrageous things is that here in TN, the state charges nursing homes over $2600/month bed tax. There is no way it costs the state $2600/month per bed to inspect nursing homes. So why is the bed tax so high? Because in most cases, the FEDs were paying for it. They created a massive incentive for States to institute high taxes and run up the cost of Medicare to the end users.

2006 TN bed tax

Medicaid bed taxes and institutional bias

[Graybeard58]

Almost everyone who ends up in a nursing home will need Medicaid (unless they die before spending all their money

Yep, my uncle was in a nursing home for 18 months and after his life savings were exhausted he died.