"If Stench calls, take a message."

[Oerets]

The places I have had dealings with are by no standards high end facilities. The price is what it is here. The state privatized all of their care facilities when Mitch got in almost eight years ago.



Barney

[icenine]

Originally Posted by noonereal

How so?

Oh so you can pay for long term care of the elderly? How do think Americans pay for it?
The blue chip jobs like my dad had with a nice pension have gone away, and I do not think companies pay for elderly health care insurance...I think Medicare and Medicaid does....if I am wrong someone let me know.

If Ryan voucherizes Medicare and your mom and day run out of money to pay the insurance company you are naturally going to want to pay for it....which would kill (financially) most families I think.
That is why I hate this voucher bullshit it will really destroy the middle class. It is not just about people over 65. Ryan knows this but he expects us not to be smart enough to figure it out.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

If true, Ryan's a moron.

Pete

We already knew that.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by barbara

It's almost as if the republican party wants to lose the election.

That might be the only thing that saves the GOP. If they lose and wake up and throw Nyquist, Rove, limbaugh and the Tea Baggers overboard and steer toward the center the GOP might survive.

[piece-itpete]

Medicare/Medicaid is going broke. If something isn't done it will be gone.

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Medicare/Medicaid is going broke. If something isn't done it will be gone.

Pete

If left up to the Randian freaks who decry every such program as "so(c)ialism", it will be gone anyways.

Regards,
Dave

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Medicare/Medicaid is going broke. If something isn't done it will be gone.

Pete

The Republican version of global warming?

John

[Boreas]

My landlady is French. Her mother is in an extended care facility back in France. Her care was entirely covered by the French national health care program until what I assume must have been a lifetime cap was met. She's now responsible for paying the entire amount.

$750.00 per month.

John

[wgrr]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Medicare/Medicaid is going broke. If something isn't done it will be gone.

Pete

Not exactly true.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-11e2-91e7-296

The solution is simple, make the people who sit around their pool, sitting on their ass', waiting for the dividend check to arrive, pay Medicare tax on every dollar they earn from capital gains income. Right now the pay $0 in Medicare taxes. There are bills passed that will tax unearned income starting in 2014.

If I have to pay Medicare taxes so does Rmoney.

If you do a little research the Obama Justice Department has eliminated billions in Medicare/Medicaid fraud. Cleaning up the system will also help.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Medicare/Medicaid is going broke. If something isn't done it will be gone.

Pete

This is exactly what Ryan is counting on....fears of national debt as an excuse to destroy important social welfare programs.