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- There are another 10 million elderly Medicaid recipients — many of them the parents of Mulvaney’s struggling taxpayers — who get Medicaid to cover long-term nursing home care, help with eating, bathing or dressing and care for cognitive or mental impairments like dementia. More than half, 56 percent, are white.
The care Medicaid provides to these elderly men and women does not come cheap. In 2011, according to Kaiser, these patients accounted for 36 percent of total Medicaid expenditures.