[nascarnation]

If someone is going to require me to pay their medical bills while they’re alive, I see no reason not to ask for repayment from their assets after they pass on.

[Gaffer]

I agree — IF those people are given the option to have insurance and pay for it beforehand. In some of these cases, they are being forced on it, or their children are, etc.

This is really just a trick by Obama to increase the entitlement rolls to ‘beyond-reach’ proportions and finally force this country into abject socialism.

[Gen.Blather]

“If someone is going to require me to pay their medical bills while they’re alive, I see no reason not to ask for repayment from their assets after they pass on.”

Because the government is involved the price is inordinately inflated. In a recent example a private doctor charged $10 for a blood test to a cash patient. The same test done by a different office and charged to Medicare was $78. Not only will the service be slow and substandard, but it will be overly costly too.

The two forms of medicine that are forever decreasing in cost and increasing in quality are cosmetic surgery and Lasik surgery. Those are not reimbursed by any third party payer so the market is in force.

[willibeaux]

nasc.... Some folks go through all sorts of legal manipulations to protect their assets. Will Zerocare make them invalid if heirs will still be responsible to pay off the incurred debt?

Can any other Freeper answer this question?

Thanks

[familyop]

"If someone is going to require me to pay their medical bills while they’re alive, I see no reason not to ask for repayment from their assets after they pass on."

No one can indefinitely afford the govenrment-connected medical rackets and insurance middlemen of today and the near future. The U.S.A. cannot afford them.

[SgtHooper]

Agree. Take Medicaid, pay it back.