There is a remarkable film out called “Alive Inside” which shows Nursing Homes and the residents, some who have been there ‘vegetating’ for ten years and more....educate your selves in the advent you either know someone or are close to putting a loved one in one of these homes. In many ways the film is up-lifting.
Well, there is a limit to what can be done for someone using other people’s money.
Compare a Medicaid nursing home, for example, with a private one. Some states pay $70/day for 24-hour care of a Medicaid patient, a result of perfectly legitimate political processes in those states.
But, of course you can make an “exposé” for television of what $70/day will buy.
The fact that people don’t like what they see on some TV show should not result in taking more from taxpayers strained to the limit as it is.
And if the old NH Hospital buildings were not filled up with bureaucrats, perhaps there would be more money to care for the sick.