Comments on: Elder Care: The Private Sector Responds When Government, Insurance Companies and Employers Are No Where to be Found

By: Burt Starrick

Burt Starrick — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:33:53 +0000

Palin is a racist idiot. First of all, terrorists come cloaked in all kinds of religion . Timothy McVey was a CHRISTIAN. 62 Muslims died on 911, they had families and places of worship that loved them too. The hate mongering C should also remember that Jesus, her Lord and Savior came from the same place as all those “terrorists” who have the nerve to build a place to observe their religion in a country built on the backs of foreigners.

By: John Goodman

John Goodman — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:20:09 +0000

Here is more on nursing home abuse.

By: Dorothy SR

Dorothy SR — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:00:14 +0000

Thank you for this, and for all your other great articles.

By: Devon Herrick, National Center for Policy Analysis

Devon Herrick, National Center for Policy Analysis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:30:13 +0000

According to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, one-in-four of U.S. nursing homes is poor. In all, nearly 3,400 nursing homes received only one start out of five.

My opinion about the survey is to have good long-term care insurance so I have more control over the facility where I spend my final days.

By: Dr.Chiscano

Dr.Chiscano — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:00:27 +0000

Dear John
Happy Holidays to you.I do enjoy and appreciate your Health Alert news.

Regards

By: Matt Gehring

Matt Gehring — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:15 +0000

My name is Matt and I wanted to thank you for your your comments. I spent 3.5 years working in an Alzheimer’s/Long Term Care facility in Utah and I know the difficulties and pains associated with caring for a loved one. I personally got to know some great people I helped care for and I also became close with some of their families. I’ve seen a lot of resources that help. One in particular seems to be a great benefit: http://www.thecaringspace.com
Please pass this link along to anyone you feel could benefit from it.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:00:18 +0000

Merry Christmas John!

Thanks for all you do for Free Marketer healthcare.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:17:49 +0000

Actually, John, although it pays less than half the dollars for nursing home care, Medicaid covers 2/3 of all nursing home residents and because Medicaid residents tend to be the long-stayers, Medicaid's dismally low reimbursement rates touch over 75% of all nursing home patient days.

I wrote about the feds' new NH ranking system in today's E-Alert, here.

Thanks for covering the critical LTC issue.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:48:53 +0000

Herein lies the solution to the problem of long term care. Move people from the nursing homes into the private, noninstitutionalized sector.

By: Jope S.

Jope S. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:32:10 +0000

This is one of those rare controlled experiments.

There are two markets — one almost completely controlled by government; the other the product of private, voluntary action.

Guess which of the two markets is periodically revealed to be abusing patients in scandalous ways, has escalating costs, and is universally avoided by anyone who is able to do so?