many people who live in nursing homes pay through the government program medicaid, which pays less than medicare or regular insurance companies. in june, many american nursing homes were caught throwing their regular patients out so they could make room for covid-19 patients who could pay them more. because nursing homes had stopped allowing visitors, it took longer for them to get caught. united states law requires nursing homes to warn patients 30 days before kicking them out, but the nursing homes did not do this.