[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 157 (Wednesday, October 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H9793-H9794]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       LET US TALK ABOUT DETAILS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I think it is very important to talk 
about the details. Let us talk about what is going on with Medicaid. 
Some of those details we know. There was no hearing, but, nevertheless, 
the Committee on Commerce has marked up the bill.
  And let us talk about some of the, I think, very non-family-friendly 
things that they did:
  If a couple suddenly finds one of them very, very ill and needing 
nursing home care, they did away with the 1988 statute that we passed, 
and now the entire couple's resources must be expended before they can 
go on Medicaid. Mr. Speaker, in 1988 we said that was not fair, the 
resources should be divided between the two, and they only had to 
deplete half because the remaining family members should not have to be 
poor. It also allows us to reach out and go back to the adult children 
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attach their homes. We always felt that that was not fair either, that 
nobody wants to be dependent upon their children, and it also removed 
the standards that we fought so hard for in nursing homes.
  Mr. Speaker, kennels will have more standards than we will have in 
nursing homes.

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