Nursing home question carrying $272 million cost

By Colin A. Young Jan 28, 2020 Supporter after supporter testified Tuesday in favor of a potential 2020 ballot question updating rates paid by state government to nursing homes, leading Sen. Patricia Jehlen to question where the money to pay the new, higher rates would come from. “Who’s going to pay for this? We don’t have hundreds of millions of dollars unspent in the commonwealth,” Jehlen, the Senate co-chair of the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs, said. “If we reject every tax opportunity before us and we accept all of the responsibility ahead of us, how is that going to balance out?” Jehlen was reacting to the estimate from ...