Responding to Carter
October 30, 2011 - by
Now Carter’s gone to meddling. So I feel compelled to depart from my preference to avoid writing about clients.
His October 24 blog, “The Vanishing Cuts,” takes aim at DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler – again. His collateral targets include people who run and live in adult-care homes (my clients).
Here’s the other side of that story.
Carter says the state should be moving people out of adult-care homes (and nursing homes) and paying for them to get care in their own homes.
A noble goal. Unfortunately, thousands of these people don’t have homes. Or families who can take care of them. Some, in fact, have been neglected and abused by their families.
You can go to the Friends of Adult Care website to read about people who, if it wasn’t for adult-care homes, would end up on the streets, in emergency rooms or in jail.
Adult-care homes provides 24/7/365 care for people – at a Medicaid rate of $57.60 a day. Try doing that in their homes.
Now let’s get back to our regular programming.
Responding to Carter
October 30, 2011/
Now Carter’s gone to meddling. So I feel compelled to depart from my preference to avoid writing about clients.
His October 24 blog, “The Vanishing Cuts,” takes aim at DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler – again. His collateral targets include people who run and live in adult-care homes (my clients).
Here’s the other side of that story.
Carter says the state should be moving people out of adult-care homes (and nursing homes) and paying for them to get care in their own homes.
A noble goal. Unfortunately, thousands of these people don’t have homes. Or families who can take care of them. Some, in fact, have been neglected and abused by their families.
You can go to the Friends of Adult Care website to read about people who, if it wasn’t for adult-care homes, would end up on the streets, in emergency rooms or in jail.
Adult-care homes provides 24/7/365 care for people – at a Medicaid rate of $57.60 a day. Try doing that in their homes.
Now let’s get back to our regular programming.