Terrible Bill Taxes Non-Medicaid Nursing Home Residents To Subsidize Medicaid-Covered Residents

Bill essentially merges the worst parts of ObamaCare and the Estate Tax

In what may be the worst proposed legislation in my 5 legislative sessions, House Bill 1130 proposed by the Appropriations Committee at the request of the Office of Management and Budget would create a tax on nursing home beds filled by non-Medicaid covered residents as a way of filling the gap left by reduced federal funding.

This bill is even worse than the 2013 effort by House Republicans to create a Water Extraction Tax out of thin air.

At least that tax was on businesses making profit, this tax is on people sleeping in nursing homes. And the only way out of the tax is to die, or spend all your money and get covered by Medicaid.

This is basically ObamaCare for old people paid by other older people that might have some money saved to give their kids or grandkids as an inheritance.

House Bill 1130, if passed in its current form and approved by the Fede…