…if the nursing home is a private business or run by a nonprofit, why are the tax payers on the hook in the first place? Also, how many residents through skillful maneuvering of their assets gave the estate to their heirs and now on paper have nothing? Now they fall into the Medicaid reimbursement category. The estate they willed to their heirs could be a multi-million dollar estate. However, the nursing home residents are now on the state’s dole.(?) My thoughts are that if someone is truly down and out and doesn’t have any assets or have used these assets up, then they should be eligible for state Medicaid programs. But for multi-millionaires to be on Medicaid?…it just feels wrong to me [Rep. Tim Goodwin (R-30/Rapid City), “The legislation session is over: we still have a lot of work to do!!” legislator blog, 2019.04.08].