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To: The Reaper who wrote (219376)	9/8/2009 10:21:31 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

in missouri ~3500.00/month not including Prescriptions

To: The Reaper who wrote (219376)	9/8/2009 10:23:10 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Yes That is todays cost.. makes you wasnt to kill yourself.. again -NG- UFB that one would pay that to (live?) like that!! ------------ William Zatlin, of North Babylon, N.Y., may not realize it, but his bed in a Long Island nursing home costs about $11000 a month and wiped out his cash ... www.guidetolongtermcare.com/whopays.html - Cached - Similar Elder Law Attorney located in Suffolk County and Nassau County ...While you can pay privately for a nursing home, current average nursing home costs are around $11000 per month which will eat up your assets very quickly. ... www.davidowlaw.com/pages/elder_law.cfm - Cached - Similar Health Care System - what it covers and for how long.William Zatlin, of North Babylon, N.Y., may not realize it, but his bed in a Long Island nursing home costs about $11000 a month and wiped out his cash ... www.ltcinsurancequote.com/guide/healthcare.html - Cached - Similar [DOC] Long-term Care (Nursing Home) Costs a Real Threat to Individuals ...File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML

To: The Reaper who wrote (219376)	9/8/2009 10:43:51 PM
From: Jim Fleming	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I pay $10625 a month for my wife's alzheimers nursing home care. Jim Fleming

To: The Reaper who wrote (219376)	9/8/2009 10:48:30 PM
From: ChanceIs	Respond to of 306849

>>>Are those costs really that high?<<< Yes. Its horrible but true. I just finished taking care of an aunt in a Philadelphia suburb nice/upper end nursing home. They are that high. It scared the hell out of me. I can give you a good guess as to why they are that high. It's just another manifestation of socialism - just like college tuition. If you have the bucks you pay. You pay for yourself and the costs of those who can't pay. The government steps in after a while - but only after you are "spent down." In Pennsylvania, you have to disperse your funds five years before entering a home or applying for government aid. Stated differently, If you have $600K (five years @ $10K per month) you will have to give it all to the home unless you place it all somewhere else outside of the five year period before you first apply for government (Medicaide) support. Do you have anybody you trust with $600K for five years??? The attorneys love this stuff. The doctors love this stuff. Did somebody mention Soylent Green further up the thread??? Do you feel in your guts that the system is about to bust??? Denninger moved to tiny Niceville, Florida and bought guns. Edit: Regarding my comment about "another manifestation of socialism. There is going to be pain and hard choices in life. I am a believer in equality of opportunity, but also in accountability once the opportunity is given, and hard losses if the opportunity is blown. We don't have socialism today. We have never had socialism. What we have is bringing forward income to today to pay for equality in services today. We have also brought forward demand - think CfC - and paid for it with income brought forward. This will end ugly. The youngsters will kill the oldsters - as well they should. I just hope they kill the banksters and Congressters before they get to me.

To: The Reaper who wrote (219376)	9/8/2009 11:26:18 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 306849

You betcha the costs are that high. $5,600 a month out of pocket for a crappy room at a crappy out of date nursing home, and that was 9 years ago. Slightly less if you didn't take a private room to preserve what little dignity my Grandma still retained from the Parkinsons. To this day I hate it and feel like total shit that I had little choice but to place her there. And what did you get for $5,600? A dorm room, 3 meals, and her wheelchair parked at the nurses station for hours upon hours while she slowly eroded away. In hindsight I should have brought her home with me and just paid more for full time care. But the house wasn't big enough, the wife not prepared, and the new baby clouding my still youthful judgement. I guess my turn will come soon.