Nursing Home Operators

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You have to basically put a lot, either spend down your assets or put it in a trust of sorts. So that you're poor enough to qualify. You have to pauperize yourself? Yes, right? Ecause it's a means teste gram. It's a poverty programme. And this goes back to the discussion of sixtyo, about how it was passed an 65 and a. It's vulnerable to state level austerity. A. Its lik a very disturbing industry. But structurally, the need for care has grown and grown and grown,. The health case system is the only kind of potential point of access for lots of kinds of social need due to private markets.

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