If mom can't pay, adult child must (Pennsylvania's filial statute)

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | July 12, 2009 | Monica Yant Kinney

[TornadoAlley3]

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[sergeantdave]

At one time America had charity hospitals and sanitariums before the fascist government and thieving liberal hospitals moved in and destroyed them.

[mo]

“My position in the matter is that the case has not been proved. I have gone back to SCOTTISH LAW where there are three verdicts: guilty, not guilty, and not proved. I am not prepared to say on this record that President Clinton is not guilty. But I am certainly not prepared to say that he is guilty. There are precedents for a Senator voting present. I hope that I will be accorded the opportunity to vote not proved”....

Sen Arlen Spector (D) Pennsylvania February 12, 1999

[Kid Shelleen]

More info on PA's filial statue. This a lawyer's site..

http://www.pennsylvaniafiduciarylitigation.com/tags/medicaid/

[Kid Shelleen]

Medicaid is the major funding source for long-term care. If a person consumes his financial assets and his income is low enough, he qualifies for Medicaid coverage. Medicaid paid $60 billion for long term care in 2002. An increasing number of persons are transferring their assets in order to qualify for Medicaid. Their children receive their assets, and the taxpayers pay the bill for their care. Medicaid has become an inheritance protection plan.

www.pennsylvaniafiduciarylitigation.com

[MortMan]

I haven’t seen anyone advocate government (taxpayer) responsibility - mostly that the mother needs to be sued for the money by the creditor, and leave the son alone.

[bamahead]

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[randita]

Medicaid has become an inheritance protection plan.

There are "eldercare" lawyers who specialize in protecting inheritance money from being used for long term care. The ads say, "Don't let your hard earned assets be used up for nursing home care. Protect your assets so that your children can enjoy them", or something to that effect.

That galls me. Yeah, that's the spirit. Pass all your assets on to your children, then have unrelated taxpayers foot your bill for long term care. That's just wrong.

As a boomer with living parents, I am expecting nothing from my parents. If they need to use it for their comfort and care in old age, so be it. They've given me FAR more important things than money.

[bamahead]

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[sickoflibs]

This is very interesting and hard to believe. It is not a usual case and interesting that nursing homes would sue those with no money, like the record companies over music downloading.

More generally the taxpayers (medicare and Medicaid)pick up the expensive nursing home tabs and with many in their 50s and 60s paralyzed after bad strokes to be there for life (due to type 2 diabetes.) This is a very expensive period of life and we will only have more americans living it.

There is an irony that the USA borrows money or prints it to hire (medicare and Medicaid) those from other countries to do these dirty and unpleasant jobs. so what good do all those dollars do the Chinese when their aging population increases?

[Chickensoup]

Changes in MaineCare’s Estate Recovery Policy When a MaineCare member age 55 or older passes away, the State can recover funds from that person’s estate to pay MaineCare back for the cost of his or her care. This is called estate recovery. The legislature has made one change to MaineCare’s estate recovery policy that may be important to MAIN members. In the past, the state could not take any property that was transferred to a spouse or dependent child (unless they died within four months of the member’s death). Under the new law, after the spouse or dependent child (a person who is blind, disabled or under age 21) dies, the State can recover from that person’s estate any funds that were transferred from the Medicaid recipient. The state can also recover transferred funds from a non-disabled child when he or she turns 21. The first $100,000 in the estate that is passed to a spouse or dependent child is exempt from recovery. For more information about estate recovery in MaineCare call the Legal Services for the Elderly hotline at 1-800-750-5353. MAIN Update Table of Contents

[meyer]

It should be between her and those she did business with and nobody else including the taxpayer.

Exactly. Maybe it's time that the medical industry take some advice from the corner gas station - pay up front, either in cash, credit, or insurance. It is criminal to demand that anybody except the recipient of the service pay for that service.

[Tribune7]

OTOH, for a slightly different perspective check this out:

The Law That Could Have Helped Obama's Mama :-)

[libertarian27]

He’s probably not even in her will.

[ConservativeMind]

Ping for later.

[Orange1998]

uhhhhh... yes. lol

[CSM]

Another reason to be responsible stewards now. Personally, I find this situation to be very sad all the way around, and as I am estranged from my folks, it is heartbreaking that they could continually foist hurt upon their children......

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[Orange1998]

Noticed Texas is not on the list.

[mom4melody]

As a kid raised in foster care with total failures for an egg and sperm doner - I will not pay 1 red cent for either one of them.

[GOPJ]

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