A new American Health Care Association analysis of the pending House health reform bill when combined with the impact of a recently-enacted Medicare regulation cutting Medicare-funded nursing home care by $12 billion will result in total cuts of $44 billion over ten years. In West Virginia, seniors who require nursing and rehabilitative care will face a total Medicare funding cut of $272 million for those services over that same time period.
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