If you can’t find affordable nursing home care for a loved one, that care falls to family caregivers ― and maybe you. Currently, states receive as much federal Medicaid money as it takes to provide benefits for everyone who is eligible. But Medicare ― the health care system for older people that kicks in at 65 ― doesn’t cover extended stays in nursing homes. Kahn said he fears that cuts in reimbursements to nursing homes could lead to more nursing homes just flat-out refusing to take Medicaid patients, which some already do. “This could make the long-term care crisis even worse,” Kahn told The Huffington Post.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2017 23:20 UTC