When stories are floated then there is a reason. We believe the reason the nursing home industry is making noise in public opinion is due to them wanting a piece of pie. They claim with reason they are close to laying off workers, cutting services, and even closing. This is due to the catchall reason of the year the recession, and federal and state government spending cuts. There is some truth as the Medicare rate adjustment has cut an estimated at $16 billion. These nursing home funding will be cut over the next 10 years but it passed just last week. When you add that Congress is debating slashing billions more in Medicare funding as part of health care reform things are going to get messy. Following suit with the banks, car industry, mail service the nursing home industry is headed for a crisis. This is scary for a large part of the population as the nation has 16,000 nursing homes that housed 1.85 million people last year, up from 1.79 million in 2007. There is not just federal cuts as 24 states cut funding for nursing home care and other health services needed by low-income people who are elderly or disabled. We found some hypocrisy as well as the Hollywood elite who have no problem yelling for national healthcare will not even take care of their own. The Motion Picture & Television Fund said in January it would close a hospital and nursing home in California founded to care for actors and other entertainment industry workers, because of financial losses. Medicaid payments by states to nursing homes fell short by $12 per patient, per day last year or nearly $4.2 billion in unreimbursed costs for Medicaid-allowed expenses. This is another great example of a government system that is supposed to help, can wait for that National Healthcare Program.