{"id":10478,"date":"2009-11-12T20:31:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-12T20:31:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:31:03","slug":"the-mystery-of-homecare-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/the-mystery-of-homecare-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of homecare cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the concerns about the state budget deficit, here&#8217;s an interesting question:<\/p>\n<p>One year of care for a client in the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) homecare program costs the state around $13,000 a year, while one year of nursing home care for the same individual costs taxpayers $60,000 and year and up. <\/p>\n<p>Yet every year, it seems, the IHSS program faces serious budget cuts while nursing homes are fully funded. Why is that? &nbsp;Suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the concerns about the state budget deficit, here&#8217;s an interesting question:<\/p>\n<p>One year of care for a client in the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) homecare program costs the state around $13,000 a year, while one year of nursing home care for the same individual costs taxpayers $60,000 and year and up. <\/p>\n<p>Yet every year, it seems, the IHSS program faces serious budget cuts while nursing homes are fully funded. Why is that? &nbsp;Suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8045,7307,8046],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-8045","tag-7307","tag-8046"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2J0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}