Harris announces plan for Medicare to cover long-term care at home
Harris announces plan for Medicare to cover long-term care at home
Policy proposal would represent significant expansion of public health insurance program for Americans above 65
Now do that but for everyone
Baby steps are better than none.
Sometimes.
Let's say you're in Florida right now. If at this instant you stood up and never stopped taking baby steps, do you think you could escape Milton?
Sometimes baby steps just give the illusion that a situation is being fixed and people calm down and do t take enough action. In this case using virtually any other mode of evacuation besides baby steps.
The Republican solution is for the olds to die in order to save the economy. Except if it's them, of course.
Don't forget that they need to work until dying!
People who receive long-term support services are among the government’s most expensive beneficiaries. Although they comprise 6% of all people enrolled in Medicaid, they account for 34% of federal and state Medicaid spending, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Because it's a huge grift where lots of companies never visit the patient and charge Medicaid a shit ton of money...
The solution isn't paying those companies even more money to do nothing.
The solution is fixing our entire healthcare system.
But for some reason Harris will only do things the majority of voters want when it's against the party platform. 50+% of Americans wanting universal healthcare isn't enough of a reason for her to support universal healthcare...
You really want universal Healthcare?
Suspend Medicare for 5 years, the boomers hate socialized medicine already, let's respect their wishes.
Suddenly, you'll have a functioning national polity capable of rational discourse again.
Bruh....
The first time it was part of a presidential platform was Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.
If all it took was people dying off, we'd have gotten it by now. The problem is we keep trying, getting a tiny crumb, and then get stalled another 20 years by our own party because we just got something.
Affordable care act was 2010, so we might get another crumb when Harris is getting ready to leave her second term. That way the progressive in the primary would get under cut on healthcare against the moderate because they'll frame asking for more as being against what we just got.
I just legitimately don't understand why more people don't see it, it's blatantly obvious on a long enough timeline.
The only way we get universal healthcare is if we refuse to shut up about it.
I already get it. I'm a disabled vet, but it's just insane to me hearing what the majority of Americans have to deal with
100% in agreement that we need universal healthcare. I'm one of those people that feel like medicare for all is already the compromise.
But I just want to mention that that's not all of what those in home care programs are. There's also a program (different names in different states, but normally called Choices) that allows for people to choose a care giver themselves, and essentially act as their employer for their care. That's how my mom is able to stay in her home, by employing me to care for her. It's not a perfect system, and it's rife with fucked up situations, but it's something that does need way more funding, and would also benefit from a universal healthcare system
100% in agreement that we need universal healthcare. I’m one of those people that feel like medicare for all is already the compromise.
Medicare sucks tho, doesn't cover a lot, and requires huge copays.
None of which is necessary, and just adds overhead to the cost requiring higher costs for less care.
I feel like there's just no reason not to have a national healthcare service that's worth the tradeoff. People aren't just going to line up for unnecessary procedures to exploit it, and once we get past the I ritual rush from everyone not being able to afford treatment, people would just act like in every other developed nation and get lifetime checkups so issues are caught and addressed early which both raise chance of survival and lowers cost of treatment.
Why aren't you for that if every other option results in worse average care for more average costs?
Because it’s a huge grift where lots of companies never visit the patient and charge Medicaid a shit ton of money…
Worth pointing out that this already illegal. That's actually Medicare Fraud, and how it's illegal (and how these things get enforced) is explained in https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/Fraud-Abuse-MLN4649244.pdf
I've done work for a healthcare adjacent company and this was required training. So that part isn't really broken (in the sense that the system allows and permits it or even protects this), it may just be that we need to spend more money on enforcement of the existing laws.
The solution isn’t paying those companies even more money to do nothing.
Agreed.
The solution is fixing our entire healthcare system.
As above, enforcing the existing laws after better detection of violations should be enough.
when it’s against the party platform.
But for some reason Harris will only do things the majority of voters wantUh... yeah. Glad she's listening to the majority of voters instead of a platform that doesn't speak to them.
Medicare For All!
The article didn't mention it but did her proposal include anything about pay requirements for home health care aides? Generally it is a poorly paid profession and one thing I like about Biden is he always makes sure to tie things to good paying, potentiallu union jobs. Hopefully it's just further in the policy statement, if not this is a misstep from Harris and a retraction from Biden's labor friendly policies at a time when Trump/Vance are appealing to poor folks and labor people left and right (literally)
In addition to higher pay and Medicare coverage, I'd also like to see some tighter regulations on training. What's required varies by state, but usually it's not too stringent, often something like a 2 week course and a background check.
I work in 911 dispatch, people who have home health aides obviously have a lot of medical emergencies, and it's often those aides calling me when they do. Often they're completely clueless about the patients medical history, unable to answer basic questions like their age, often don't even know the address, and often are uncooperative with me and sometimes refuse to do things like perform CPR when I need them to.
Some are great, most aren't.
We are going to have a lot more elderly soon, and not a lot of young people to fulfill these roles. I am not sure making the requirements more stringent is the best answer... I would rather everyone have an aid, rather than half the people having heavily qualified aids.
Maybe they could create some program that just applies to the industry, where there is some form with all that vital information that the state administrates thar the care giver is required to maintain on hand. Free/mandatory CPR classes should be a must also.
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