Health care providers object to tax cut

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Here's one tax cut that business doesn't like.

Gary Bauer fears that his New Jersey nursing home could be devastated by a Bush administration proposal to halve the provider tax that states can charge patients.

It turns out that money collected through the tax is returned to nursing homes — along with matching federal dollars — in the form of higher reimbursements. The extra dollars mean additional staff and resources for patients.

By cutting in half the allowable tax, the administration estimates it will save $3.1 billion over five years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_go_ot/nursing_home_taxes

[Lance_Boyle]

1. Who needs nursing homes

when there are so many unoccupied ice floes? :sarcasm:

[gula]

5. Not for much longer.

[NC_Nurse]

2. They'll just jack up the rates

and families will have to pay it.

[cosmicdot]

3. Gary Bauer, the nursing home administrator ...

not to be confused with this guy who fronts a 'campaign for working families' 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization to pay himself a living-well salary while supporting political candidates who support legislation working against working familes (Santorum, Allen, Blackwell, the ususal) ... the Reaganite ...


Gary L. Bauer

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Nursing Home Business Administration:

Perhaps one of the top five most corrupt and noxious industry segemnts in the country.

[Seedersandleechers]

6. Nursing homes are mainly white american IMO

In so many other cultures either the family or the government provide for their care, at home.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. And far too many of them exist...

To divest the inmat^H^H^H^H^Hpatients of their assets at the end of their lives. Homes, possessions, vehicles, land, bank accounts, investments, trusts...all are fair game.

[Demit]

9. A good nursing home is a godsend for an 88 year old woman who

who can't care for herself at home any longer because the voices tell her not to, and whose family consists of a couple of faraway nieces. She is in a religious-affiliated, nonprofit nursing home, and that is the best scenario she, as a low-income citizen, could have found herself in. They are wonderful there. White American notwithstanding.

[leesa]

8. Gary Bauer PNAC signatory...making himself rich off the elderly, huh?

Wonder if they are being made into Soylent Green or something. If anyone looks like a perpetual Nazi Youth...