Pending Federal Nursing Home Overhaul Bill

Jo C.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nursing-home-overhaul-bill-boost-170022034.html

LicketyGlitz

Thanks for sharing, Jo C. - Ron Wyden is our senator!

Jo C.

Here is a copy of a well written Post from Joe C. on the Spousal Forum responding to this information:

" . . .  My angst arises from what is and is not being proposed by our political leaders. If they can propose things like universal child care then why not universal adult care, if you can have propose student loan forgiveness then why not LTC facilities cost forgiveness, if you can propose have free community college then why not government funded respite breaks. I feel we are a forgotten population. Yes, there has been hundreds millions of dollars of spending proposed for LTC for those who a Medicaid eligible but not a red cent for those who are self funding. I am not wealthy but worked hard and saved for a comfortable retirement but most of that will be gone by the time this journey is over. To be clear I am NOT a political conservative and feel there is merit in many of the current proposal but there is nothing in the trillions of dollars of spending to help people who are self funding care of LOs. As you are aware the cost of LTC easily dwarfs the cost of a college education, it would be nice if they at least threw us a bone."