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  • 01-01-2001 12:00 AM

    2007 House Bill 4366 (Establish Medicaid assisted living pilot project )

    Introduced in the House on March 1, 2007

    Click here to view bill details.
  • 03-26-2007 2:19 PM In reply to

    Yes Yes Yes

    My Mom is in a nursing home right now because we can't meet her needs at home. What she really needs is assisted living. There are thousands of seniors inappropriately residing in nursing homes because they can no longer live independantly and don't have enough money for assisted living. This would save the State a lot of money because assisted living is much cheaper than paying for a senior to live in a NH.
  • 04-24-2007 3:11 PM In reply to

    Advocate for Assisted Living

    I have only one concern about the bill is the actual dollars...32.00/day doesn't seem like much money to pay for a licensed facility. In Valley Nebraska, there is a Medicaid waiver facility- they run on 77.00/day and they still working toward an LPN level of nurse for second shift. I just want to make sure that there is appropriate funding to care for the elderly in a holistic manner. Since this will be licensed, the project will still need the "basics"-administrator, Director of Nursing, nursing assistants, dietary, housekeeping, etc.
  • 04-24-2007 3:35 PM In reply to

    we pay

    over a hundred dollars a day for PRISONERS but only pay 32 a day for care of the elderly. let's you know where the governor's heart and mind are, doesn't it?
  • 04-24-2007 3:44 PM In reply to

    House Bill 4366

    I am not go to go that far...I think it's a matter of educating the Representatives on this issue. The State of Michigan needs to be more savy with the Medicaid budget, but not cut it so much that appropriate care needs can't be met. Productive Aging and Aging in Place are the waves of the future. We have to come up with creative ways to meet the needs of one of the most at risk populations across Michigan and the country. This will be a hot topic in 2008 for the State elections as well as the Federal elections.
  • 04-24-2007 3:53 PM In reply to

    what happened before?

    what happened before the "great society"? before medicaid and welfare were invented? i understand that there were horror stories, but the VAST MAJORITY of elders grew old among their family members. it seems that this is NOT EVEN AN OPTION NOW.
  • 05-01-2007 12:54 PM In reply to

    debate on House 4366

    I think you need to read the 2006 report from the Office of Services to the Aging...and get your facts straight. Old adults don't live with their kids like they use to....this is part of the problem......read the report and become educated
  • 05-01-2007 9:42 PM In reply to

    Pigs at the trough

    "The State of Michigan needs to be more savy with the Medicaid budget" Like, eliminate the damned thing and refund it to the taxpayer. You freeloaders, you gluttonous gobblers of stolen wealth, who perpetually suckle at the swollen teats of big government [cue up the Maggie Simpson pacifier-sucking audio loop], heed this: it is *morally repugnant* to use the police power of government to confiscate the property of others to pay for Grampa's Viagra and colostomy bags. Provision of such resources is the job of Grampa, family, church, and charity. Not the cold barrels of state guns pressed to strangers' heads. What you have created thus far is an intergenerational pyramid scheme that has doomed millions of otherwise self-sufficient individuals to unbreakable dependency on the "public" dole (aka confiscated private propery that's fenced to buy votes). This socialist crack-dealing must stop. Besides, the crack will shortly run out, one way or another.
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