title: Medicaid. Will the public program neglect the poor to pay for the elderly?
abstract: If the policy-makers trying to fix Medicaid think they've thought of every angle, they should think about the situation of Peggy, a middle-class Illinois widow stricken with Alzheimer's disease, who's being forced to spend down her savings to get Medicaid coverage for her nursing home care. In fact, there are several million Peggys out there, and balancing their needs against those of the hard-core Medicaid poor may break a system that was never resource-blessed to begin with.
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002648:Child; D003363:Cost Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008489:Medical Indigency; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics; D011050:Policy Making; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States