Reply #1: I am so sorry to hear about your mother in law's problem

[karynnj]

I think that MA should propose giving incentives to rehabilitation facilities that would (in return for the incentives agree to regulation) with the goal that they create enough facilities to take any person in a hospital for whom rehab is preferable. If the incentives would good enough, it might lead the private places to sign on and it might enable new places to be built.

The current situation is bad for the patient and bad for the state and federal government that pay more for the hospital than they would for the rehab facility.