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Title: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: CC27 on December 29, 2014, 05:49:43 PM
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RandySF (7,103 posts)

If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.


I just learned that could have happened to my family if not for Medicare. My recently deceased mom had a 10-day hospital stay before she passed and, based on the medical tally, it would be a long, long time before we could have paid it off, if ever. Of course, they had supplemental private insurance to pick up some of the lack, but the vast bulk was covered by a program Republicans love to hate: government medicine (on a sidetone, my dad's friends are urging him to make greater use of some very good VA doctors in Michigan). I will never, EVER tolerate any attack on our core programs or the people who administer them. Thank you, Medicare!

Medicare is broke also DUmb ****. Thank you tax payers.

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Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: obumazombie on December 29, 2014, 05:58:51 PM
It's amazing that libs don't think they are responsible for their bills.
Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: Carl on December 29, 2014, 07:55:11 PM
Screeching gay randy is going to inevitably cost taxpayers a fortune in medical care.
Another reason leftist freaks want it paid for by everyone else.
Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: freedumb2003b on December 29, 2014, 09:19:16 PM
It's amazing that libs don't think they are responsible for their bills.

In this case they are not.  Families are not responsible for bills of their parents after they pass.  The estate is, but there is NO way a DUmmie would depend on that, right?
Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: thundley4 on December 29, 2014, 09:29:11 PM
In this case they are not.  Families are not responsible for bills of their parents after they pass.  The estate is, but there is NO way a DUmmie would depend on that, right?

So if the wife was a co-signer on the house, does that mean the husband will have to sell the house to settle her debt to medicare?
Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on December 29, 2014, 09:29:29 PM
In this case they are not.  Families are not responsible for bills of their parents after they pass.  The estate is, but there is NO way a DUmmie would depend on that, right?

I was going to say that I wonder if the (D)Ullard knew that the estate got tagged for the remainder, but I'm sure the little Bolshevik wouldn't care at all.
Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on December 29, 2014, 09:31:34 PM
So if the wife was a co-signer on the house, does that mean the husband will have to sell the house to settle her debt to medicare?

Good question.  Surely, our benevolent socialist overlords wouldn't do that......   :whistling:
Title: Re: If it wasn't for Medicare, my family would be bankrupt.
Post by: Mary Ann on December 29, 2014, 11:09:59 PM
So if the wife was a co-signer on the house, does that mean the husband will have to sell the house to settle her debt to medicare?
MediCARE wouldn't have any pay back requirement, IIRC. MediCAID does. That's the one that pays nursing home care.