I am back! I took a long weekend to celebrate. What was I celebrating? Well, my life of course! Every once in awhile, I take some time to do that.
SEC. 2402. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO PROVIDING HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES. Pg. 479
This is actually a section that states the Secretary will be providing more oversight of what states do concerning these services. It's just explaining more government, not less, as the title of the section seems to suggest.
SEC. 2404. PROTECTION FOR RECIPIENTS OF HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES AGAINST SPOUSAL IMPOVERISHMENT. This is beginning Jan 1, 2014
The following sections deal with expanding funding for elder care. There is some mention in here that states congress will meet and discuss further things concerning long term care. So, once again, we don't really have any clear understanding here. Just a promise that something will be discussed and possibly passed.
Pg. 492 Subtitle F—Medicaid Prescription Drug Coverage
This section begins to discuss how the government will pay the states for drug care. It's very technical and confusing. It appears as though, they are just expanding what is already set in place with Medicade.
Again, the Secretary is mentioned in here about how they will determine what the states get. It's so frustrating when I read this bill because, it's basically a lot of wasted words. Seems almost like they could have simplified this to one page that says, "The Secretary does everything."
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