Posted on 12/10/2013 2:31:17 AM PST by Libloather
The federal health care exchange is incorrectly determining that some people are eligible for Medicaid when they clearly are not, leaving them with little chance to get the subsidized insurance they are entitled to as the Dec. 23 deadline for enrollment approaches.
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- “All this for a damn fag!”
They are "entitled" to my tax dollars because around 300 people out of 300 million said so? I want to scream.
Medicaid is exactly what is desired by the designers of the PPACA.
Google: “Medicaid+after+you+die”
Everything you’ve ever done in your life is confiscated by the authorities when you die. It’s a reverse mortgage on steroids and crack because it’s about your entire estate not just property.
Your children and heirs GET NOTHING!
It isn’t ‘taking’ for taking’s sake. They are recouping costs from providing care for that person.
Personally, I am against the hiding of assets to qualify for Medicaid. Children/heirs have nothing to do with it IMO.
It isn’t ‘taking’ for taking’s sake. They are recouping costs from providing care for that person.
Personally, I am against the hiding of assets to qualify for Medicaid. Children/heirs have nothing to do with it IMO.
If a person can pay for a different policy and “wants’ a different policy than medicaid then YES it is taking for takings sake.
On the other hand if they are indeed hiding assets for the purpose of defrauding the Government for the purpose of receiving ‘free medical care’. Then having assets seized after death to pay for the treatments given is a good thing. But taking ALL of the assets no matter how little was paid out for medical care, no... once again the ‘balance’ is thrown off.
Bottom line here though is that this is on the surface a naked forced redistribution of accumulated assets so as to prevent generational transfer of them.
Personally, I am against the hiding of assets to qualify for Medicaid. Children/heirs have nothing to do with it IMO.
Obviously it isn't an act out of spite by the govt. But you can call it "recouping costs" but it is still the shifting around of money that I'll bet 98% of medicaid participants don't know about. Children/heirs have everything to do with it if the fine print is not repeatedly and loudly explained. The only assets you can "hide" are those that were earned 3 years before applying to medicaid excluding dwelling and associated land.
When you see crisis as "opportunity" then you have an incentive to manufacture crisis. Nobody is being held accountable so there's no downside to screwing it up, and lots of opportunity for the insiders to profit from the confusion.
I believe this is what has happened to my husband. You begin to wonder if they are refusing tax credits saying people are supposedly eligible for Medicaid, when they really aren’t eligible for Medicaid, so that hopefully people will just accept it and pay full price, so they have less subsidies. We have had an appeal in for over a month and are getting nowhere with it. 8 more business days to meet the deadline for getting him January 1 coverage, and no confidence the government will make that happen.
I understand. But in the end, Medicaid is not doing anything that is ‘hidden’. It is supposed to be used for people who have virtually nothing, no insurance, no income, no assets. I think that ensuring the patients pay what they have or can pay should be done. It is only fair to the taxpayers that fund this.
As you said, transfers of wealth need to be done prior to 3 years before use. It would behoove those thinking about getting grannie’s stash had better think about it and be proactive.
Myself, if I were speaking to a ‘Navigator’ and he/she told me I was eligible for Medicaid, I’d ask for it in writing and with a complete signature. Elsewise, I’d assume they don’t know what the hell they are doing.
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