Stupid Healthcare Laws & Corporate Greed

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I've have Home Health Aids who come in to help aid my wife so I can go shopping, pay bills and other things when I need to leave home while someone stays here to keep an eye on my wife to make sure she stays ok.

They would tell me that I should be paid to take care of my wife since I am here all the time helping my wife basically 24/7. So I asked about it.

Guess what? They said I can be paid, but I have to move out. WTF?????

Here's the thing, a relative cannot live with the client and be paid for it. BUT there's a catch. A Non-relative can live with the client and be paid for it.

How stupid is that???

Corporate Lobbyist had purposely made that law. Those that offer Homecare services don't want us to take care of our love ones, because they'd be deprived of their outrages billings to the Government.

See, Homecare industries charges $200 an hr to send one of their employees to their client's homes to provide the care they need. Whereas a guy like me could be paid $9.00 an hr to provide care for my wife.

See the difference?

Pretty stupid, huh? It's all about greed.

Oh in case you're wondering, I care for my wife 24/7 who suffered a congestive heart failure, renal failure, respiratory arrest and a stroke. She's semi-paralyzed on her left side due to the stroke.

I LOVE caring for my wife, she's my baby and I took my wedding vows seriously the day I married my baby, "for better or for worse, in sickness and in health".

It would've been nice if I had a little extra income. Nope, Healthcare Industries says, "NO! MY MONEY! NOT YOURS!"

*sighs*

Yiz
 
Lobbyists don't make laws. That's done by legislators.
 
Glenn said:
Lobbyists don't make laws. That's done by legislators.
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Lobbyists hands a bill to a Senator or Congressman, offers "donations" (bribes) to have them endorse the bill and then the legislators vote on it.

This practice happens everyday....

Most business laws is done by lobbyists who represents Big Corporations and have laws passed in their favor that helps kill competitions and keep big bucks in their pockets.

Money talks ya know...

Yiz
 
Instead of thinking in the box... Look at it this way -

Can you become one of these "health care providers" and contract the job out to someone, while bringing in the fees for yourself?
 
There are reasons why a primary caretaker cannot be a relative, in particular a husband, live in the home, and get paid all at the same time. And it has nothing to do with corporate greed.
 
jillio said:
There are reasons why a primary caretaker cannot be a relative, in particular a husband, live in the home, and get paid all at the same time. And it has nothing to do with corporate greed.
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Isn't there a program that helps live in caregivers?? I thought Social Security or Public Assistance had some sort of aid for that.
 
jillio said:
There are reasons why a primary caretaker cannot be a relative, in particular a husband, live in the home, and get paid all at the same time. And it has nothing to do with corporate greed.
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That is the problem.... Caretakers tend to be relatives. I took care of my mother.
 
Babyblue said:
Isn't there a program that helps live in caregivers?? I thought Social Security or Public Assistance had some sort of aid for that.
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Actually, SS has a program, but certain criteria must be met. And if the individual is already drawing SSI, for example, they can't double dip.
 
Buffalo said:
That is the problem.... Caretakers tend to be relatives. I took care of my mother.
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This is true. But it is not just the live in that is the problem. In many cases, the family member can live with the one being cared for. However, they must also be able to show that they gave up gainful employment in order to take care of their family member, and they can't already be drawing SSI/SSDI for a disability of their own. That gets into double dipping.

FF could probably give the exact criteria.
 
TXgolfer said:
There is no way to do that legally.

My advice would be to get a job during her normal sleeping time and have an aid watch her sleep..
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With only 60 hrs a month allotted by Medicare/Medicaid? The rest of that would be out of pocket expenses, something that would go beyond my paychecks.

They may make alot of money, but the Government severely limits it too, leaving a guy like me with very little choices.

Unless you wanna babysit my wife for FREE???

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
With only 60 hrs a month allotted by Medicare/Medicaid? The rest of that would be out of pocket expenses, something that would go beyond my paychecks.

They may make alot of money, but the Government severely limits it too, leaving a guy like me with very little choices.

Unless you wanna babysit my wife for FREE???

Yiz
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Has Medicaid not determined that she needs 24/7 attendants?
 
yizuman said:
I said, "allotted" didn't I?

Yiz
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So you are saying that Medicare/Medicaid has determined that she only needs 60 hours a month of caretaking? Then who decided that someone had to be there every minute of every day?
 
jillio said:
So you are saying that Medicare/Medicaid has determined that she only needs 60 hours a month of caretaking? Then who decided that someone had to be there every minute of every day?
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Oh I apologize, I misunderstood what you meant...

Ok, it's because of my back injuries that prevents me from finding jobs that does not REQUIRE physical activities and those jobs are rare or hard to get due to employees already filled those non-physical activity work which may result not having an availability anytime soon.

I have both upper and lower back injures and one of those injuries is a result from assisting my wife (lower back).

So I'm home all the time and awaiting my SSI case to come through in hopes I'll be granted my much needed SSI.

So I guess my being here all the time is what made the hours to be 60 hrs a month. I don't fully understand entirely of their procedures or why. Some of the things they do confuses me.

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
I don't fully understand entirely of their procedures or why. Some of the things they do confuses me.

Yiz
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better seek professional assistance then...
 
Well, here's the thing that is raising a red flag for SS: you are applying for SSDI because of back injuries that keep you from working. Yet, the care your wife needs requires lifting. If you can't lift outside the home, you can't life inside the home. So, either your SSDI claim is fictitious, or the fact that you are the primary provider of nursing services for your wife is fictitious.

Just saying...SS looks at all of this. They aren't going to pay you to do a service that you are filing a disability claim saying you can't do.
 
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yizuman said:
Oh I apologize, I misunderstood what you meant...

Ok, it's because of my back injuries that prevents me from finding jobs that does not REQUIRE physical activities and those jobs are rare or hard to get due to employees already filled those non-physical activity work which may result not having an availability anytime soon.

I have both upper and lower back injures and one of those injuries is a result from assisting my wife (lower back).

So I'm home all the time and awaiting my SSI case to come through in hopes I'll be granted my much needed SSI.

So I guess my being here all the time is what made the hours to be 60 hrs a month. I don't fully understand entirely of their procedures or why. Some of the things they do confuses me.

Yiz
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are you profoundly deaf?
 
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