Re: [QUAD-L] FOUND IT! - Medicare & Home Health Care

[DeLiMiTeD4]

This was how I understand it. Medicare comes in and evaluates the situation so that paper pushing bureaucrats get paid for sitting on their buts. If you meet poverty standards you can qualify for medicaid and other bureaucrats can get paid. You can get more than 35 hours under some states rules. The idea is that it is cheaper to pay an agency than it is to pay a nursing home. It is cheaper to pay an independent provider than it is to pay an agency. So, the entire system is set up to shove your butt into a nursing home and complain about costs. If I'm wrong about any of this, I want to see real proof. Statements from bureaucrats, nursing home operators and lawyers will not be accepted as they do not represent any familiarity with reality, truth, or doing the right thing.   john   In a message dated 6/5/2005 5:28:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 35hrs a week -- what a pipe dream! I don't know of a single qualifying person who receives this amount of HHA care paid for through Medicare - does anyone? Medicare reps told me it only paid for 3 visits a week - period - regardless of condition that's a whopping three hours (whoohoo). I didn't know about all this "agencies get to keep the money" policy NO REPS volunteered that tid-bit what little I've learned has been through what I could glean from their handbook and other fellow sufferers, err, clients.     Steph