I’m normally all for reducing cost of government, but if they’re going to impose a work requirement they need to kill those odious clawback clauses. In order to receive Medicaid, recipients have to agree to their next of kin being pursued for their medical bills. Medicaid will also go after the estate of any deceased recipients. Either it’s actuarial and based upon income or it’s a social safety net. Things are devolving to the point that we’re all going to end up on one or the other, Medicaid or Medicare. That’s the endgame. Do you want to your heirs to lose your house and any other assets? Do you want your next of kin on the hook for your medical bills? I don’t know how that’s even legal, obligating a third party to pay that has not agreed to pay and is possibly even unaware, but there it is. Get rid of that, it’s anti-private property and anti-wealth generation.
That can hardly be legal?
“...Medicaid recipients have to agree to their next of kin being pursued for their medical bills...”
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That is not true.
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“...Medicaid will go after the estate of any deceased recipients...”
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That is true, and proper.
“In order to receive Medicaid, recipients have to agree to their next of kin being pursued for their medical bills. Medicaid will also go after the estate of any deceased recipients.”
I read that they can go after estates but I’ve never read anything about them pursuing kin when reading the requirements.