CHICAGO — A national initiative to help patients leave nursing homes and regain their independence — which has saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars — could face deep cuts under the Republican health care proposals being debated in Congress.
The Money Follows the Person program, which uses both federal and state Medicaid dollars, helps patients who are leaving nursing homes buy their own furniture and pay the security deposit on an apartment. It even covers an initial trip to the grocery store.
I’ve been reading a lot of negative comments and feedbacks about nursing homes. and that’s so sad. My mom stays in an assisted living in Lane County https://www.willametteoaks.com/lane-county . I’ve been checking on her everyday and make sure that she’s well taken care. So far..all is well and she’s happy with her new home.
I’m a 53year-old man and l have a disability. and l’m stuck in a nursing home. and i would like to get out on my own. but i don’t have the money for apartment
Well why can’t the sick rent a big house and help eachother, I can’t live alone well now but I can’t live in this abusive environment anymore. I have a terminal illness 24/7 alone, people shouldn’t die abused and alone
Another example of how out of touch the GOP is to see future benefits keeping many programs they want to slash.
Sounds like a worthwhile program so it would only be cut under the Republican Medicaid reform proposal if you have a vindictive Democratic-Party-run state government.
We saw a similar pattern in Massachusetts after Proposition 2-1/2 when politicians — miffed that the people took control of their tax burden — made the worst cuts they could think of to the departments they ran. It took a few years but all such politicians were eventually run out of office. That could be a great unintended consequence of the Republican’s Medicaid reform proposal.