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| Obamacare Fallout - Elderly on Medicare Kicked Out Of Assisted Living Homes |
| 2010-06-07 |
| By June's end, Prairie Springs in Sequim and Laurel Park in Port Angeles will have evicted six of their elderly residents because they are on Medicaid. Lucile Cole, who'll turn 99 on June 13, and Edith Bateman, 93, are among the women and men who received a letter this spring from Assisted Living Concepts, the Wisconsin-based corporation that owns Prairie Springs and Laurel Park. "The last day of Medicaid participation . . . will be June 30," the letter stated. "Thank you for the opportunity to be of service to you." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #12 Here is my opinion, and I have been an RN for 28 years. For those that have no health insurance, rationing is better than the alternative. Zip, zilch, nada. |
| Posted by: Mr. Bill 2010-06-07 22:36 |
| #11 For Javins3089: What happens when you outlive your family, as a lot of old people are doing these days? Who do you stay with then? Our old aren't the problem - a rapacious government is the problem. We need to put an end to the problem, not the people affected by it. We need to hang a few dozen congresscritters and government bureaucrats, so the rest will remember THEY WORK FOR US, not the other way around. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-06-07 22:28 |
| #10 Hey hey calm yourselves...just because they didn't have time to read or understand a 10 page law from Arizona does not mean they do not know exactly what this are doing with this 1000+ page law. Utopia baby, honk honk! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-06-07 21:01 |
| #9 How's that wonderful "Spreadin the Wealth" workin for ya America? Take it from the productive and give to the dead beat entitlement bunch. You know, like "AmeriCore". Or Acorn. Or artists. But our senior citizens? Some of whom have outlived even their one or two children? They don't count to da "One". |
| Posted by: Harcourt Angoger7112 2010-06-07 20:49 |
| #8 Civilization was nice while it lasted, wasn't it? I won't be putting any relatives on ice flows. I suggest you stay on good terms with your families too. |
| Posted by: Javins3089 2010-06-07 20:34 |
| #7 M. Murcek: With the amount of lard on our 'poor' we might replace part of the domestic oil production with proper rendering. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-06-07 20:34 |
| #6 Evilly wasteful, abu. Haven't you heard, soylent green is people... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-06-07 20:30 |
| #5 will be so much easier when we can return to the Eskimo trading of leaving our old and infirm on an ice floe. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-06-07 20:26 |
| #4 No, just a realistic person who will have to care for my own family members without help, but will be expected to pay to care for everyone elses. And no, I don't expect to be putting my family in care homes. They cost too much. |
| Posted by: Javins3089 2010-06-07 20:23 |
| #3 Is that you Mr. Burns? |
| Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous 2010-06-07 20:01 |
| #2 Hello....that's what families are for...as they always have been. I can't imagine how it suddenly became society's responsibility to take care of everyone's parents. So many of these people have simply shifted assets to other family members anyway, in order to qualify for government care assistance. |
| Posted by: Javins3089 2010-06-07 19:32 |
| #1 OH.... Don't worry... there won't be rationing!! Can we just dump our utopian dream now please for reality? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-06-07 17:29 |