Posted on 08/01/2023 10:45:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Caring for an elderly or permanently disabled family member is a gut-wrenching experience for many families. Not only that, but it’s expensive, often exhausting personal savings and resources.
The United States, like many other rich countries, is aging fast, and that means more Americans with diminishing cognitive function and physical disabilities as well as the loss of independence. Providing such care is intensive. In the case of nursing homes, where residents have the most severe needs, round-the-clock attention is especially expensive.
Most fund these things through the Medicaid program, but this can come with an unreasonably steep cost. The private sector has a simple solution to offer, but it might require a change to the system.
Medicaid is welfare.
If “heirs” are trying to dump grandma on the taxpayer while making off with her stuff, I’d say “clawback” is exactly the right thing to do.
The huge problem with Medicaid is the “claw back” provisions that destroy a surviving spouse or family members after the Medicaid patient dies.
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