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Title: Nursing Home Industry Unleashes Scathing Advert Decrying Governor Kasich's Proposed Cuts
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clevelandleader.com
URL Source: http://www.clevelandleader.com/taxonomy/term/13
Published: May 15, 2011
Author: Eugene McCormick
Post Date: 2011-05-15 12:25:50 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 7116
Comments: 70
Remember when the Republicans were talking about "death panels" during the national health care debate last year? That seems to be the message of what the Ohio Health Care Association is depicting in their new television advertisements that have been popping up around the dial in response to gutting skilled nursing care, aka nursing homes, by $470 Million dollars. The scary thing about it though, is if the cuts do come, not only jobs will be lost but likely lives as well as senior citizens will need to find new options for long-term health care. With the loss in funding, facilities such as Metro Health Center for Skilled Nursing Facility here in Cleveland would either close or services down to a bare minimum level. Laughably, Kasich says he is being bullied by the group telling the Plain Dealer: If there is someone who knows a thing or two about bullying, it is Kasich himself who famously said following his election. 
"For them to get their way would continue a precedent of bullying, intimidation and the power of special interests in our state."
"We need you on the bus, and if you're not on the bus, we will run over you with the bus. And I'm not kidding.".
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#35. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
More Liberal horseshit, tell the lie enough people will believe it..... "MOST" nursing homes are owned by private individuals, religious organizations and major corporations..... ("NOT" state or county owned and operated....) Those homes do make a profit, if not then they are shut down..... "MOST" inhabitants of those nursing homes are private pay or insurance pay.... "MOST" facilities only take a certain percentage of Medicaid (State paid) patients.... WHY?? Because they owners of the nursing homes can only charge so much for those patients.... (I.E. less profit than private pay patients....) Ohio spends more per person on nursing home care than all but five states. Ohio has more nursing homes than all but two states. So what they are claiming is false, because the State does not fund that many facilities...... "MOST" of what the State pays out is for the Medicaid patients.....
Some interesting statistics: Nursing facility reimbursement in the United States (1) 8 percent Medicare; 68 percent Medicaid; 23 percent private pay. Take a look at the rest www.efmoody.com/longterm/nursingstatistics.html In California when the Republicans block passage of the budget (this happens annually) nursing homes don't get paid, they have to go to the bank, get a loan, pay interest to stay open until a budget passes. Some don't make it and go belly up.
Those are interesting statistics..... I had to put my mother into a nursing home back in 1999.... When I was inquiring about getting her into one they were telling me they were 70-75% private/insurance pay and 25-30% Medicaid... at least that's the way I remember it..... So either I remembered incorrectly... LOL.... or maybe they were meaning all of the other homes they were affiliated with were the same way.... But I do remember them saying that once she ran out of money and went on Medicaid, that she could stay there as long as they had a Medicaid bed open at that time. If not,then I would have to move her to another facility that had a Medicaid bed open......
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThat seems to be the message of what the Ohio Health Care Association is depicting in their new television advertisements that have been popping up around the dial in response to gutting skilled nursing care, aka nursing homes, by $470 Million dollars.
#36. To: CZ82 (#35)
"MOST" facilities only take a certain percentage of Medicaid (State paid) patients.... WHY?? Because they owners of the nursing homes can only charge so much for those patients.... (I.E. less profit than private pay patients....)
#41. To: lucysmom (#36)
Some interesting statistics:
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