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- 1Married 54 Years, Couple Enters Nursing Home Months Apart, Loses Medicaid Protections●They Were Married 54 Years and Entered the Same Nursing Home Four Months Apart. With No Spouse Left at Home, Medicaid's Spousal Protections Vanished and the Couple Kept $3,000 Between Them
An elderly couple married for 54 years entered the same nursing home only four months apart. Because neither spouse remained living at home, Medicaid's spousal impoverishment protections, which shield income and assets for a spouse still in the community, no longer applied, leaving the pair with only about $3,000 between them. The case highlights how the program's rules can leave couples who need care simultaneously with almost nothing to live on.
- 2GOP effort to delay health care cuts until after midterms fails●Good thing to talk about. ----- Republicans tried to punt health care cuts until after the midterms. It didn’t work. Whi
Republicans sought to postpone the political impact of health care cuts until after the midterm elections, but the strategy did not work. While most GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs do not take effect until 2027, Democrats are already reaching out to voters who say they are feeling the squeeze now, making health care a live issue ahead of the midterms.