Well that isn’t the choice.
The mother has means. It should be between her and those she did business with and nobody else including the taxpayer.
I agree and the son’s big mistake was to represent himself. But if we are talking about broad policy positioning, families should be made to take care of each other before the rest of the population is made to take care of them.
Apparently I overlooked the financial assets of the mother. I would expect that if she did not pay her nursing home bills, she would have been legally forced to sell her home and/or any other assets she had to pay what she owed.
Once she owned no more assets, and couldn't afford to pay, even with her Medicare insurance, she would have qualified for Medicaid.
Exactly. Maybe it's time that the medical industry take some advice from the corner gas station - pay up front, either in cash, credit, or insurance. It is criminal to demand that anybody except the recipient of the service pay for that service.