If he hadn't had Medicare, the parents would be complaining about that. The nerve of some people, to use the tragedy of their son this way, pathetic.
Why didn’t they help their son? They should be ashamed.
They wanted him to be “double dipping”? I assume he was on disability due to his mental illness, but would think he had the better of the two, theoretically.
I’m sorry for their loss - and that’s a young age to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, so they’ve had a long, hard course with that disease.
(I’ve seen “Medicare/Medicaid” but that just means the doc writes off the copays and deductibles and helped with medication costs, at least before Part D. )
However, if the son was 48, how old are the parents? They’re on Medicare, too, most likely. Isn’t that the goal - Medicare for all?
Looks like he had health care...such as it is, MEDICARE is RATIONED health care, even if you have all the different parts of Medicare.
Sounds like the parents wanted the government to be totally responsible for their child. It is very sad that he committed such a selfish act and left pain for his parents.
Tenncare is about to bankrupt TN, and when Deathcare kicks in, it will escalate it rapidly. Then no one but the wealthy will have decent health care as the docs will start to quit.