Surprise! If you're forced into Medicaid by Ocare,your assets canbe confiscated later

[Vox]

I didn't. The rep I have I did not vote for.

yes, you did. you were too high above to level with a low mortal Mitt.
that is exactly what I was talking about.

this crap could have been kicked out in November 2012

?? I voted for Romney.

sorry then, I understood that you just did not vote at all.

 

[Vox]

If you qualify for Medicaid due to low income, but still have any assets (in other words, if you haven't yet been forced to sell your house or car yet etc.), the state can come back and confiscate them after you die

Excellent! Apparently even Obama finds an acorn once in a while. People who have to live off the State should not be then leaving money to other people, they should be paying for their own bills first.

you understand that it is easy to bypass, do you? For NOW

it just shows the malice of the left.

 

[Sunshine]

It's buried way down in the fine print.

More and more people are finding that the high costs of Obamacare policies, are forcing them to choose Medicaid instead. But unless they read way, way down into the fine print, they may get bitten by a nasty bug, after their deaths: If you qualify for Medicaid due to low income, but still have any assets (in other words, if you haven't yet been forced to sell your house or car yet etc.), the state can come back and confiscate them after you die, to pay for your "free" medical expenses.

If you thought you might have something to pass down to your children... the government has other ideas.

Welcome to "compassionate socialism".

Yes, we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. And boy, are we finding out.

This is one part that your heirs might find out instead. They might find that they aren't your heirs after all... the government is.

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Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death | Local News | The Seattle Times

Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death

As thousands of state residents enroll in Washington’s expanded Medicaid program, many will be surprised at fine print: After you’re dead, your estate can be billed for ordinary health-care expenses. State officials are scrambling to change the rule.

By Carol M. Ostrom
Seattle Times health reporter
BETTINA HANSEN / The Seattle Times

Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn, both 62, decided to marry so they wouldn’t have to get health insurance individually through Medicaid, which could bill their estates after death. The Port Townsend couple’s joint income is too high for Medicaid but low enough for tax credits.

It wasn’t the moonlight, holiday-season euphoria or family pressure that made Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn, both 62, suddenly decide to get married.

It was the fine print.

As fine print is wont to do, it had buried itself in a long form — Balhorn’s application for free health insurance through the expanded state Medicaid program. As the paperwork lay on the dining-room table in Port Townsend, Prins began reading.

She was shocked: If you’re 55 or over, Medicaid can come back after you’re dead and bill your estate for ordinary health-care expenses.

The way Prins saw it, that meant health insurance via Medicaid is hardly “free” for Washington residents 55 or older. It’s a loan, one whose payback requirements aren’t well advertised. And it penalizes people who, despite having a low income, have managed to keep a home or some savings they hope to pass to heirs, Prins said.

With an estimated 223,000 adults seeking health insurance headed toward Washington’s expanded Medicaid program over the next three years, the state’s estate-recovery rules, which allow collection of nearly all medical expenses, have come under fire.

Medicare will raid your estate for assisted living bills too.

 

[Pop23]

If you qualify for Medicaid due to low income, but still have any assets (in other words, if you haven't yet been forced to sell your house or car yet etc.), the state can come back and confiscate them after you die

Excellent! Apparently even Obama finds an acorn once in a while. People who have to live off the State should not be then leaving money to other people, they should be paying for their own bills first.

Did they vote for this to happen?

Forced into a program BY FORCE OF LAW that confiscates what you have at the time of your death.

Only a moonbat finds this cruelty acceptable.

 

[Rozman]

So I got the word today.My company provided HC plan was cancelled.We were able to get coverage until
Feb 2014 then we have to go to another provider.Emblem will no longer cover us.

I have a pre existing condition with my knee.Will probably need some surgery at some point.
The problem is I now have a deductible of $6,000.00 for any hospital involvement.

I don't have $6,000.00 to cover this.

I guess I don't get my knee fixed.

Obama Care

You know I love it...

Thanks Libs!

 

[oreo]

It's buried way down in the fine print.

More and more people are finding that the high costs of Obamacare policies, are forcing them to choose Medicaid instead. But unless they read way, way down into the fine print, they may get bitten by a nasty bug, after their deaths: If you qualify for Medicaid due to low income, but still have any assets (in other words, if you haven't yet been forced to sell your house or car yet etc.), the state can come back and confiscate them after you die, to pay for your "free" medical expenses.

If you thought you might have something to pass down to your children... the government has other ideas.

Welcome to "compassionate socialism".

Yes, we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. And boy, are we finding out.

This is one part that your heirs might find out instead. They might find that they aren't your heirs after all... the government is.

----------------------------------------------

Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death | Local News | The Seattle Times

Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death

As thousands of state residents enroll in Washington’s expanded Medicaid program, many will be surprised at fine print: After you’re dead, your estate can be billed for ordinary health-care expenses. State officials are scrambling to change the rule.

By Carol M. Ostrom
Seattle Times health reporter
BETTINA HANSEN / The Seattle Times

Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn, both 62, decided to marry so they wouldn’t have to get health insurance individually through Medicaid, which could bill their estates after death. The Port Townsend couple’s joint income is too high for Medicaid but low enough for tax credits.

It wasn’t the moonlight, holiday-season euphoria or family pressure that made Sofia Prins and Gary Balhorn, both 62, suddenly decide to get married.

It was the fine print.

As fine print is wont to do, it had buried itself in a long form — Balhorn’s application for free health insurance through the expanded state Medicaid program. As the paperwork lay on the dining-room table in Port Townsend, Prins began reading.

She was shocked: If you’re 55 or over, Medicaid can come back after you’re dead and bill your estate for ordinary health-care expenses.

The way Prins saw it, that meant health insurance via Medicaid is hardly “free” for Washington residents 55 or older. It’s a loan, one whose payback requirements aren’t well advertised. And it penalizes people who, despite having a low income, have managed to keep a home or some savings they hope to pass to heirs, Prins said.

With an estimated 223,000 adults seeking health insurance headed toward Washington’s expanded Medicaid program over the next three years, the state’s estate-recovery rules, which allow collection of nearly all medical expenses, have come under fire.

There are many that want to pay for their own insurance--but are being forced into Medicade, even though they don't want it--simply because of the mandates under Obamacare.

One woman’s demoralizing experience with the ObamaCare website, which her daughter documented in an article this week in The Wall Street Journal, is shining a light on how the health care law is forcing people into Medicaid even if they don’t want it.

"How has it come to this?" Nicole Hopkins wrote of her mother’s experience.

After having had her insurance canceled this fall like so many millions of Americans, her mother Charlene sought a new insurance policy on HeathCare.gov. But it gave her only one choice – Medicaid - which is the government's traditional safety net to cover the uninsured poor.

Charlene Hopkins does not see herself as poor and resents having to stoop to what she believes is a taxpayer funded hand-out, when she prides herself on a life of independence and self-sufficiency.

ObamaCare forcing people into Medicaid | Fox News

 

[Politico]

Surprise! It's not a surprise. The rules have always been that way. The fact people are stupid and just figuring it out now, not a surprise either.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

There is plenty of hidden traps in this god damn tax.

 

[JakeStarkey]

If you qualify for Medicaid due to low income, but still have any assets (in other words, if you haven't yet been forced to sell your house or car yet etc.), the state can come back and confiscate them after you die

Excellent! Apparently even Obama finds an acorn once in a while. People who have to live off the State should not be then leaving money to other people, they should be paying for their own bills first.

you understand that it is easy to bypass, do you? For NOW

it just shows the malice of the left.

It shows, to the contrary, solid thinking by the right, center, left.

Personal accountability, Vox.

 

[JakeStarkey]

So I got the word today.My company provided HC plan was cancelled.We were able to get coverage until
Feb 2014 then we have to go to another provider.Emblem will no longer cover us.

I have a pre existing condition with my knee.Will probably need some surgery at some point.
The problem is I now have a deductible of $6,000.00 for any hospital involvement.

I don't have $6,000.00 to cover this.

I guess I don't get my knee fixed.

Obama Care

You know I love it...

Thanks Libs!

doubt that is the end of the story

keep looking at the plans

 

[JakeStarkey]

If you qualify for Medicaid due to low income, but still have any assets (in other words, if you haven't yet been forced to sell your house or car yet etc.), the state can come back and confiscate them after you die

Excellent! Apparently even Obama finds an acorn once in a w?hile. People who have to live off the State should not be then leaving money to other people, they should be paying for their own bills first.

Did they vote for this to happen?

Forced into a program BY FORCE OF LAW that confiscates what you have at the time of your death.

Only a moonbat finds this cruelty acceptable.

Are the "forced" to accept it? Or IF they accept it, they accept personal accountability

 

[Stephanie]

Hey, what happened to you won't be"bankrupted" from medical bills with the almighty, OscamCare..

Instead of buying insurance they bait and switch and stick you in Medcaid where when you die they (the GOVERNMENT) can Confiscate everything you own that was going to be left to your family...

sweet eh?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Medcaid is not welfare unless you're poor. For the middle class forced into medicaid by obamacare, it's just a loan and you pay it all back when you die.