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In reply to the discussion: What Doctors Like Me Know About Americans' Health Care Anger [View all]kerry-is-my-prez
(9,544 posts)your late 4Os or 50s. If you want to live in a nice assisted living apt. (Which are tiny studios if you want to spend a reasonable amount, a one bedroom if you have extra money to spend) in my expensive town its going to cost $3,000-$4,500) a month in rent and $2,000-5,000 in entrance fees. Surprise! Medicare pays NOTHING towards long care. The rent goes up every year in these places and if you cant pay - you are evicted. If you need more care than that - you have to go to a nursing home - which is a lot more. Unless youre a multimillionaire, you will probably have to spend down your income and then go on Medicaid (if its still going be around). If things stay the way they are, you will see a lot of middle, working and lower class homeless elders or, they will put them in nightmare nursing facilities where they will get very little care. If they do get rid of Medicaid, (currently most average people will end up on it) it will be a mess - only the wealthy will be ok - the rest will be homeless. Im a social worker and know whats really going on.
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