Posted on 10/08/2007 1:14:41 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. -- The home of a woman who refused to leave her hospital bed will be auctioned Tuesday to pay for the cost of her 14-month stay.
Kaiser Permanente patient Sarah Nome racked up a $1.4 million dollar bill when she refused to leave her hospital bed for more than a year, arguing she couldn't walk and it was the health-maintenance organization's responsibility to find her an appropriate care facility.
She'd been admitted after she broke both her legs while living alone.
A Marin County judge eventually put the now 84-year-old woman in the county's care. She was transferred to a Lafayette Convalescent Hospital in Contra Costa County in March 2005.
The value of the house hasn't yet been determined because officials haven't had access to it, but the property is believed to be in poor shape.
Kaiser had to spend substantial time and money just to pay mortgage bills and prevent foreclosure while legal proceedings were pending, Kaiser's attorney said.
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Guess it all depends on the elderly parents. If someone has been mentally abused by a parent, constantly disowned as family all their adult life because they didn’t bend to the whim of the parent, and the parent is an alcoholic, do you think the children have to take care of the elderly parent they haven’t spoken to thirty or so years later?
I’m using that as an example, btw. Not saying that this lady is like that. I don’t know her.
You have a good point, but I would like to think that forgiveness and unconditional love makes one a better person.
Nah, Hillary will save money in Medicare under the “Early Departure” program.
I can help you...in one word.
LAWYERS!
If someone has never given it, they will never receive it. It is possible for a relative to kill any love, if they try hard enough.
Take an example where a parent makes contact an exercise in misery every time a child reaches out to them, and they persist in doing it for decades. Even a saint has limits. After a while, they become strangers, by the choice of one party.
Not to mention the corporate crooks who sunk the money they stole into mansions worth tens of millions. It's like an offshore account with walls.
Recall, federal law prohibits insurance entities from having nonprofit mailing rates except under certain conditions.
They claimed the conditions applied, but it's obvious they didn't. That's because, as it turns out, KP doesn't give stuff away!!!
No one is required to enable their own abuse.
On my husband’s side, his father ran away to American Samoa to live out his last years in a fog of alcoholism. When this took its inevitable toll, he was incensed that his sons wanted to put him in rehab in the US and refused to communicate with them.
Those who have close, loving families should pause often to give thanks. There are millions of us who never experienced that until we formed our own families as adults. Sometimes I meet as many as one a week and all of them tried at some point to reconcile with manipulative narcissists who simply saw that attempt as yet another weakness to exploit.
Jocelyn Elders said that we shouldn’t spend a lot of money on the elderly. “They’re just going to die anyway.” She said that it was kids who would be growing up to pay “her” Social Security.
I think that was the real admission that tanked her career in the Clinton Administration even though they try to play it off of her claims that we should teach teens to masturbate.
I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for her. She refused to leave the hospital for over a year and now she’s in the county’s care. They should sell her house and liquidate all hger assets...someone has to pay for her care and it shouldn’t (all) be the taxpayers.
Well, sure, as long as the big money people get their money! Who really cares about one individual? Take her house; throw her out on the street and don’t worry about anything. Somehow, some way, she’s at fault. And the big money bankers can sleep soundly.
That kind of money, “ill gotten gains”, are not covered under this law. They can still go after the home if the home was acquired under fraudulent circumstances or “ill gotten gains”. Just like with drug lords.
I wish we still had debtor’s prisons for people like this.
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