[chaos_5]

They business obviously has a right to do this, but it's going to be some bad PR. Perhaps it would have been better to let them stay and accept no new residence who use Medicade.

[precisionshootist]

Quite possibly (actually likely) they simply can’t afford to do this for free. The rationing has begun.

I’m really afraid people have forgotten the government now owns the rights to thier lives with health care and WILL decide who gets treatment and who lives and who dies.

[codercpc]

As I understand it, they couldn't (Grandfather these residents in). You must accept all Medicaid, or none. And if they chose none (which they did), they would have to give these residents care the rest of their lives, free of charge.

Medicaid pays so little for resident care (Medicare pays none) that you can't even afford to staff these centers anymore unless you have a majority self pay, small minority Medicaid, and they must have reached that tipping point.

It also points out in the article, that each resident (with the help of the centers administration) has found alternative places to reside, and not one person is being kicked to the corner.