From Twitter:
I visited the Tieszen Memorial Home to meet the residents and chat about what is going on in Washington, DC. We talked about the urgent need to cut spending and we all agreed NOT to cut Social Security and Medicare. pic.twitter.com/H1yhGVSkKx
— Rep. Dusty Johnson (@RepDustyJohnson) February 18, 2025
The folks at Memorial Home to do not need to worry about SS running out, Millennials, Gen Z and down the line won’t get a dime of the tax they continue to pay into unless changes are made.
Elderly Medicare patients get qualifying stays in nursing homes after things like heart attacks and broken hips. The idea is they will receive physical therapy and then go back home.
It is the biggest scam in every nursing home I have worked in; they get very little therapy, if any (one Medicare resident was charted as continuing to make excellent progress for three days after he died, at another facility, the therapist pushed all the wheelchairs into the therapy room, went outside to smoke, then returned to push all the wheelchairs back down the hallways.) They are not allowed to walk, and within a month they have lost so much function they cannot possibly go home. This keeps the nursing home admins happy, especially if the clients are private pay. They don’t want anybody leaving until the money runs out.
Another waste of money is Home Health Care. It was promoted as a way to cut down on ED visits and hospitalizations, and save money. Big whoops there. Didn’t work.
Finally, dragging people out of nursing homes for things like screening mammograms or prostate exams when they already have terminal diagnoses is ridiculous.
There are lots of ways to cut Medicare, you just need to lnow where to look.
That has not been the case at Avera Mother Joseph Manor in Aberdeen. Their physical therapy department was excellent and allowed a relative to come home and be able to be mobile going places after a hip fracture and brain injury. Excellent care overall and same with Avera Brady in Mitchell
A lot of the statements you made seemed wrong to me, but rather than just accuse you of BS, I went and double checked.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9580576/#:~:text=The%20results%20of%20the%20study,and%20length%20of%20hospital%20stay.
1. You seem to be incorrect about home health care not reducing readmissions. It absolutely has in peer reviewed research.
2. Max payout for a rehab bed ends after 100 days, so keeping a person beyond that time does not make sense, as most beds at long term care facilities lose money.
I agree with your last point that preventative health care for things like cancers and other illnesses doesn’t make a lot of sense if a person is terminal.
You are spreading some incorrect information here and should do better.
Not gonna touch Medicare. Not gonna touch Social Security. Medicaid? Yeah, that’s gone.
I don’t know Dusty, did you clear this with President Doge?
Dusty should know better than to make promises he can’t keep.
And based on today’s vote, Dusty lied to a bunch of old people. How honest of him.
Yeah.