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This is the last big issue with health care. Since your home is basically your biggest savings asset....I believe that if the government is taking care of you, they have a right to it. There's a whole industry set up to make sure the elderly do not lose their homes when they need to pay for their healthcare. IT'S WRONG.

I agree. It is sad that the last thing of any monetary value can be taken away.

The entire system is broken. I work in a pediatric hospital and it makes me furious to see the "destitute" welfare moms walk around in designer clothing, draped in jewelry, with their hair and nails done, talking on their cell phones. These are the same moms who can't "afford" to buy food or formula for their kids, or "don't have transportation" to take their kids in to the free clinic we provide for immunizations.

These people get everything you can imagine at no cost. Transportation, clothing, food, medical and dental care, help with bills, etc. And then we have the elderly, who have usually worked the majority of their lives, having their homes and other assets taken to pay for the very things we provide for free to the welfare moms.

Its WRONG to punish heirs for their parents' debt. If the parents did not intend to bequeath their home to their surving children, I have to add I have no moral or legal difficulty with the home being seized to redress Medicare debt. As long as the home is in the parents' name, the state can do that to recover the debt. What it cannot do is go after the kids to satisfy it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus