Nursing home residents could face homelessness, health officials say

[TexasTowelie]

OKLAHOMA CITY — For a second year in a row, nursing home caregivers are trying to shelter some of the state’s most vulnerable residents from a dose of scary news.

Come next year, if lawmakers can’t find a way to increase payments to the state-managed insurance program — Medicaid — thousands of elderly Oklahomans may have to find a new nursing home or risk ending up homeless.

Many of those oldest residents have outlived all their relatives or don’t have anyone else to provide a roof over their heads. They’ve long exhausted all their savings and sold their valuable worldly possessions and rely on taxpayers to help shelter them. Now they risk losing access to their daily medical care and their homes in one blow.

With Oklahoma’s $878 million shortfall, the state’s largest insurer is facing reimbursement rate cuts as high as 25 percent, which could threaten the health of hospitals, physicians, pharmacies and nursing homes, officials say.

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[Warpy]

1. I'm sure all those fine Christian Republicans will just step over them on the way to church

The frail elderly dying of exposure on the street wouldn't trouble them at all.

[Permanut]

2. Most vulnerable residents..

Seems like Jesus said something about them. Not that Jesus had a corner on morality, but it seems like if you claim to believe a book is holy, then it might be a good idea to live by it.

[Bettie]

6. They don't want to actually DO any of the stuff

purported to be said by Jesus, they just like to drop his name to show their moral superiority.

They don't actually like to live by that morality, just force others to do so.

[applegrove]

3. Paul Ryan wants this to happen all over America.

[democratisphere]

4. Not to worry. The elderly will be protected by bridges and

overpasses that will protect them from the weather elements. Perhaps Meals On Wheels can provide them with their daily meal. Oh, that's right. Meals On Wheels is losing its funding too. I thought redumbliCONs had all the answers.

[bearssoapbox]

5. They won't be homeless for long.

Then Oklahoma's only problem will be where to put the mass grave/Potters Field.

Damned reTHUGliCONS.



I'm not in Oklahoma, (Ohio, so we have kashits to deal with) but this seems to be the plan of the rethugs for the country.

I hope it doesn't happen. My wife and I rely on Medicare/Medicaid for our health care.

Take care.