Jason Barat can often meet Ruth Renee as his 94 -year -old grandmother at Martinsburg Healthcare Center in West West Virginia. The Medicade may soon be covering the cost of caring for the run, it will be put among 77% of the West Virginia Nursing Home – and 63% nursing home residents nationwide – who rely on the program.
But that funding can be cut by $ 930 billion in the next 10 years. From Bill the heavy expenditure approved by the Senate On Tuesday. The concern is that those deductions can reduce employees and tighten the eligibility requirements in nationwide long -term care features.
Nancy Mason, who runs a nursing home, where Rani lives, said he is concerned about the impact on his operating costs.
Mason said, “This helps to meet our operational expenses, from pharmaceuticals to food everything from utilities to the recruitment of employees, and, you know, all our wages,” said.
And Barrett is not just a related grandson, she is a Republican state senator in West Virginia.
“We have to go to a place where we are re -balanced our budget. I don’t think we do this on the back of the residents of the nursing home,” he said.
The Senate version of the expenditure bill now went back to the House after 51-50 votes. East Home version The bill was called for about 800 billion dollars in 10 years, a slightly small cut to the Medicade. After his passage in the Senate, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the upper chamber “went a little further than us, but we now have the product,” it is not clear that the House will try to amend the bill before the final vote.
Johnson said, “We have members at the conference who are concerned about various provisions of the bill,” we are going to try to respond to all the concerns and deliver the bill on time, as we expected and expected from the beginning. Therefore, a lot of work ahead, but this is the work, so we will get it. ,
Asked whether West Virginia would be able to fill the gap created by the spending bill, barrett was not optimistic.
He said, “A full backfill of cuts to Medicade will be very crippled for our state budget.”
