[s1artibartfast]

I think that's a pretty unrealistic hope. I don't think the government is going to spin up up millions of workers to be in home caregivers and start building government funded nursing homes. That's not to mention the budget implications is such care.

Some states are looking at or implementing new mandatory Insurance programs nursing home care, but these are far too late for Boomers to pay into them in a meaningful way

[loeg]

> Some states are looking at or implementing new mandatory Insurance programs nursing home care, but these are far too late for Boomers to pay into them in a meaningful way

This has not stopped Washington state, for example, from allowing Boomers to benefit from these programs without paying into them in a meaningful way.

[toast0]

If you have medical necessity, Medicaid pays for long term nursing homes once you meet their financial requirements (spend down assets and have low enough income).

Some nursing homes specialize in medicaid patients, which isn't much different than a government funded nursing homes IMHO.

[s1artibartfast]

I fully agree that's the case. I was more addressing the idea of the government providing the services directly and cutting the private providers out of the loop

[wintogreen74]

Even government homes (in Canada) are often income/wealth-adjusted.