Posted on 05/30/2014 10:33:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Two years after a 33-year-old mentally disabled man died at a state institution in Queens, and one year after his sister filed a lawsuit accusing the staff of killing him, New York officials have sent her an $11.67 million bill.
The claim against Rasheen Rose's estate cited his total Medicaid assistance from Aug. 6, 2002, through Aug. 6, 2012, the day he died.
A spokeswoman for the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, which runs the center, said Wednesday officials were following federal Medicaid obligations in seeking reimbursement.
"Not doing so would be a violation and could put federal Medicaid funding at risk," spokeswoman Jennifer O'Sullivan said.
Medicaid, a state and federal program for the poor, doesn't typically demand reimbursement.
But Ilann Maazel, an attorney who has filed lawsuits against the state after others died in state care, said other claim notices recently have been sent to families suing.
It’s a difficult responsibility during a time of grieving. Your Dad was a thoughtful man.
This isn’t even welfare state, it is clawfare state.
The huge irony is that most church charities could do vastly better, given the resources.
The church really flubbed it big time when it gave into being snookered into outsourcing charity to Caesar, and it doesn’t matter how big a mail room Caesar has, it ain’t obligated to glorify God like churches are.
One obvious opportunity dropped here is the opportunity to show Christ. When Christ gives charity He doesn’t “claw it back.”
We have a lot of sobering up to do as churches and as a country methinks. The piper has come for his vigorish.
There are ways around that......................
Why would she want to leave anything to the deadbeat!!
I always thought my mother had the right idea that her will would be, “being of sound mind I spent it all”.
it’s only an estate liability if you can afford to pay it back...and if you can afford to pay it back, why did you spend our money rather than your own in the first place?
medicaid was supposedly for indigent people who needed care, not to preserve your estate.
But it’s ALL FREEEEEEEEEEEE! Don’tcha know?....................
Well, being a deadbeat is one thing, being indigent is another...................
I would love to see them bill welfare recipients
Here in Florida, if a welfare recipient wins the lottery, their winnings are garnished for the amount they have taken over the years...............
good. Does that apply only to the big jackpots or to all the little ones too?
Only the ones that you have to go to the Lottery Office to claim...................
too bad :)
Unlike other states, you cannot claim the BIG prizes anonymously.........
Who said he had $12 million?
Nobody. The man was indigent, dead broke and died broke. The government trying to charge a mourning relative millions of dollars just shows how beneath contempt the government really is.
I know. My question was addressed to someone who seemed to think he/his estate had that much.
There was a story a little while back where the IRS was trying to force other family members to pay back what they claimed the dead parents owed.
It’s crazy.
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