Hard to tell for sure, but it sounds like the existing system was working fine for her. She wasn’t going to lose her home, but she was worried about the possibility. Worried for nothing, perhaps. Now we learn that she is not in danger of losing her home — but it’s not clear to me that anything suddenly occurred (i.e. Obama’s spotlight did not result in any sort of good Samaritan rescue). Basically, she was a prop. A misleading prop.
A very good prop. Kooch is changing his vote now?
They are covering this here in Cleveland. She was already assigned a financial counselor, the hospital she is being treated at doesn’t place lien’s on homes for bills (they could, but they choose not too), she most likely is eligible for medicaid (but had not sought assistance soon enough).
Basically it sounds to me she didn’t know how to navigate the government bureaucracy to get the help she needed. The hospital is the one that actually provided her with the counseling and advocate she needed. She will need to apply for SS disability in order to get medicaid.
If anything she demonstrates the already existing difficulty in dealing with the government systems.