Posted on 03/29/2023 12:09:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Move........................
Double whammy.
It wouldn’t be as much of an issue if medical costs weren’t 10x what they should be.
When spouse is not expected to survive advanced cancer, may be a uncontested divorce followed by transferring all assets to the healthy spouse will help eliminate this problem.
This guy acts like this is a total surprise. Community property, filing taxes jointly, homestead exemptions. Being shocked - SHOCKED - isn’t going to work.
Good idea, as long as he has not been served with a summons and complaint.
I’m torn on this. Services were rendered and the recipient is on the hook for them. I’ve been in the medical field and revenue goes to pay largely for employees and their benefits, including insurance.
What I don’t like is doctors not explaining this in advance.
Bills should be barred if they are not submitted in a timely matter so insurance will pay them.
Estoppel?
Who should eat the bill?
If it’s not Keith then the cost is recouped from everyone else that visits the hospital. I don’t get why people think the burden of their healthcare is everyone else’s burden to bear for them.
Most large health care organizations make sure insurers will pay them.
My wife’s insurance is Tricare that she gets because I’m retired military and the sponsor. So I expect to be responsible for her medical bills and pay them.
If they were illegals, it would cost them nothing. If they were life-time welfare collectors, it would have cost them nothing.
Illegals and welfare collectors have better healthcare coverage than most of us. They don’t get denied service.
Look back rules, just like medicaid for nursing home care.
I agree. Spouses are responsible for each others’ debts almost everywhere. The guy is clueless or dishonest. I rather doubt that a lawsuit was the first attempt to collect this debt.
The “cost” of a service is far less than the bill. A price or charge is not a cost.
If the service is futile then the provider should eat the cost.
What is hard about being on the hook for services consumed? Fill up the cart at the grocery, pay for them. Turn on the lights, pay the electric bill. Fill the car with gas, pay the station.
Up until Covid misdiagnoses was the number 4 killer. However with Covid those numbers are much higher many were out and out murder for higher.
pay the bills and be done with it.
don’t let the last memory of your wife be that of a deadbeat.
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