It astounds me that when a sick elderly person is thrown into Medicaid at the mercy of the rest of our taxes, that dependents expect that person should be able to keep, and more importantly will over the assets to the children.
The ride is free, but you can’t keep what you squirreled away unless you do it 3 years before.
California's MediCal which is Medicaid put these rules into effect at least two decades ago.
Most, who tried to have their parents assets diverted to them, before/during/post medical treatment, that we know were shrieking liberals. They wanted their parents assets and for the rest of us to pay for their parents final care. It was comical to watch these liberals who loved every tax created, go into depression when they got taxed in spite of their criminal acts.
The funniest event was where a female tricked her mother to sign every asset over to her before her mother died. This also $crewed her siblings who got nothing. One of her siblings turned her into the various tax agencies and the local sheriff since the mother died without a will. That meant that anything left after the medical bills should have been divided equally with all of the surviving off spring. The conniving witch ended up with criminal charges that would be dropped if the left overs were divided up equally. She ended up broke after she paid off her siblings.
We just went through a 2 1/2 yr probate suit over more or less the same thing. Sis in law took hubby’s poor old dad who had dementia down and had his lawyer rewrite the trust to put her (instead of hubby) in charge of everything. When his dementia got worse she threw him in an alzheimers home and stole every dime of his money, about $500k. It is amazing to me what people will do for money.