My mom had Alzheimer's. If my dad didnt take care of her it was $11,000 a month. But if you don't have money Medicare pays. Sucks for the people who saved. Or should I say their kids. The people who saved will be taken care of either way. There just won't be anything left over for the kids. And if most people have nothing and will get medicade, that's going to be a burden on the debt big time.
Eventually mom got so bad we had to put her in a $11,000 a month home but she only lived another 3 weeks. Oh, and that doesn't include pills, ensures, diapers, nothing! That's all extra and at movie theater prices.
Sorry 'bout your mom. My mom took my advice at 75 and started giving the maximum yearly gift to each of her grand kids (who were her beneficiaries anyway). I instructed each of them to save half as she might need some financial help at 95 (she died still healthy @ 90). She had the pleasure of seeing them benefit from her generosity and had she ended up a ward of Medicare, the knowledge that the gov't wouldn't abscond with her all of life savings.