Iowa nursing homes feeling budget pinch

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1. That $82,000 number is low.especially If you live on either coast.

In NJ, cost my family $144,000 a year and $36,000 up front, non refundable out of pocket with no help, for Dad. He was in the home for three years.
The home was wonderful and very clean, but by no means posh or modern.

I have long contended that the American people will get real when Mom and Dad or Grandpa or Grandma get dropped off in the driveway because
Medicaid has been cut and there is no money to keep them in the home.

Something has got to change for the better, This is how the middle class is being destroyed. Inheritance is what created the middle class and the loss of it for future generations, because it has been drained down for elder care is, what is destroying it.