Now is the time to invest in US property, Don’t abandon it, invest in it….

As to the Medicare thing, this is my understanding: Ellmore is saying that Medicare permits states to determine which services are reimbursable through Medicare. In Virginia, the state permits reimbursement of nursing homes, but not assisted living facilities (and yes, there is a great difference, in my experience). What Ellmore wants is a change to the Medicare rules that would allow more flexibility (e.g., the option to go to an assisted living facility instead of a nursing home).

Now, it appears to me that Ellmore has sometimes (as in this interview and somewhat at the debate) erroneously substituted “Medicare” for “Medicaid.” And I suspect that if you substituted Medicaid for Medicare in my description of his position above, it would be an accurate statement of his position. I think it’s far more likely that Ellmore’s guilty of being a little sloppy than trying to backdoor some new Medicare benefit. I’ll follow up with the campaign to make sure.

Finally, I didn’t understand Ellmore to say that the gentleman was dying - rather, he was implying the result of sending someone off to a nursing home (I think he said something like “instead of sending him to a nursing home to die.”). Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but I don’t think anyone who’s seen a number of nursing homes would quibble too much with that rhetoric.

Also this 105 year old man… in the debate he said that he was dying, yet here he says “the guy’s a 105, and he can put his walker above his head, still fully functional”