State leaders don't want to elaborate how, and why, they've paid as much as $23 million a year to nursing homes for thousands of unused beds. The industry also has avoided damaging cuts in state funding, even as lean budgets hit other health care providers hard. And, as we explain in this "Louisiana Purchased" report, nursing homes are very generous contributors to state politicians.
By
Lee Zurik, Manuel Torres and Tom Wright
Published November 8, 2013 at 3:15 AM