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Back in February of 2007 Senator Doug Berger wrote his constituents about North Carolina’s home care program: “Most seniors prefer to live in their own homes and receive services rather than be placed in an assisted living program outside their home. The greater number of seniors who can be cared for in their own homes as compared to going into an assisted living program will save Medicaid dollars in the long run…”

Senator Berger was stating the obvious: It’s, naturally, a lot less expensive to care for Medicaid patients in their own homes than to provide care 24/7 in a nursing home. 
Flash forward to April of 2009: Senator Berger, in his Senate Appropriations Health Care Committee, cuts home care 60% to save money – meaning to continue to receive care 20,000 elderly or disabled patients will have to go into a Nursing Home or Rest Home.
Home Care costs an average of $9,000 per patient. Rest Home care costs $21,000. And Nursing Home care costs $48,000. So Senator Berger’s ‘cut’ ends up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Today The Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina (AHHC) aired a new Internet video advertisement, here on its website – SaveHomeCareandHospice.com. AHHC is emailing links to the Internet video to constituents in State Senator Doug Berger’s district, as well as distributing it statewide. The Association’s television ad It’s Hard to Believe…but True is also airing in Senator Berger’s district.

“Senator Doug Berger proposed to cut home care for Medicaid patients 60% – leaving 20,000 elderly patients without care,” Tim Rogers, CEO of the Home Care and Hospice Association of North Carolina, stated. “The reason Senator Berger gave was simple:  He said a ‘study’ by a state vendor (named CCME) proved 45% of the patients in home care were ineligible. But the study didn’t say that. In fact, it didn’t say anyone was ineligible. Not a single patient. Because it didn’t include an examination of a single patient. Bottom line:  Senator Berger cut home care for 20,000 patients who were eligible – and what he’s telling people about that report is inaccurate.”
 
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Email from Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina CEO Tim Rogers, to State Senator Doug Berger questioning Senator Berger's claim that 45% of the Medicaid Home Care Patients are ineligable.  

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State Senator Doug Berger responds to Association CEO Tim Rogers' email regarding Senator Doug Berger's claim that 45% of the Medicaid Home Care Patients are ineligable.   

 

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