Michelle Cottle
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2,005 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4d ago
Michelle Cottle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You have to meet the criteria for it.
There are lots of ways to manage this.
People have to spin down their assets a lot of times in order to qualify for Medicaid, which means you basically have to impoverish yourself in certain cases in order to qualify, which seems, you know, completely backwards for people who've been saving their whole lives to deal with air.
Also
Medicaid does not guarantee you in-home health care.
You can only get that if the need kind of meets the supply.
Otherwise, it's only required to put you in a nursing home, which is what most people want to avoid at all costs.
For people who are kind of middle class and don't qualify for Medicaid.
You have to cobble together some sort of system of unpaid help.
You know, I know people who quit their jobs, moved in with their parents.
I know people whose grown kids were taking turns driving to medical appointments or staying with parents at different shifts.
The studies on the toll that it takes on caregivers, both emotional and physical, like because that's so closely connected.
The risk of illness, a serious illness, tends to be higher among caregivers, especially those who are dealing with people with dementia.
It becomes even more complicated.
So
It's not a great system, even for people who are financially solid.
that goal?
Okay, the so the short answer is no.
It's hard to get politicians to pay attention to this issue for a variety of reasons, one of which being, and this sounds really stupid, there's no villain.
Often in politics it's easy to gen up attention for it.
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