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He was hospitalized for a short time and then the doctors told me 1 had r.o choice: Wilson had to be placed in a nursing home. Here in northern Virginia, the cost was almost $50,000 a year — an absolutely impossible drain on our meager savings.
Even if I had cashed in all of our assets and made myself a pauper to pay for his care, it would not have covered more than a few months at the nursing home.
My children told me 1 was welcome to live with them, but how can I do that to them? 1 am too indepen-' dent and too loving a parent to impose myself on my family. Medicaid’s help with long-term care allowed me to keep a little of what we saved — and my dignity. 1 don’t have to ask my children for charity. 1 don’t have to ask for my grandchildren’s college' tuition to pay for my husband’s care.
1 looked to Medicaid when I didn’t have anywhere else to turn. Medicaid allows me to keep a small amount of our income to cover my daily expenses. The rest of Wilson’s pension goes to the nursing home.
When I went to D.C. 1 spoke at a news conference with Families USA, a national health consumer group that understands the importance of Medicaid. 1 wanted to do my part in this struggle, and let the members of Congress from Virginia know that families like mine would be in dire straits if it weren’t for Medicaid.
Wilson and 1 saved all of our lives, preparing for retirement, and that money has already disappeared. Medicaid threw us a lifeline before
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