She is complaining that Medicaid doesn’t pay her husband’s bills until he is destitute? So she should be able to keep all of their money and assets and let the taxpayer foot the bill? Incredible.
Plus if he had life insurance, I bet she would have already murdered him (”let him go”).
Plus if he had life insurance, I bet she would have already murdered him (”let him go”).
That’s not very nice. I have 1mm in term life insurance with the explicit instructions that I am NOT to be kept alive by means of some machine. My wife is to take that money and pay off the house and put our 3 girls through college. She has the same instructions for me to follow as well.
If machines are keeping you alive...and you would have died without them...it is not murder to turn them off. I think it is very callous of you to say she would be murdering her husband. That's ridiculous. Without the intervention of man…this man would have died shortly after he had his accident. As a person who has had to make that decision (my father)…it is one of the most difficult decisions a modern individual (since it is a by-product of modern medicine) has to face. You are not in a position to say it is murder…unless it is your contention that God wills all people to stay on life support indefinitely, regardless of their prognosis. If that is the case…our hospitals would be full of people in a vegetative state…as you can keep almost anyone “alive” with a machine. I don’t think God views that as life. I don't view that as life...and I don't want to remain hooked up for no reason...draining money from my family and my soul kept from God my Savior. No body who loves their family would want that either. If they did...then they are a narcissistic coward.
Now…as to me and you footing the bill? I agree. I shouldn’t. You shouldn’t. However, I know plenty of couples who don’t have life insurance and it’s the HUSBAND who usually keeps them from buying it because he thinks it’s a waste of money. Had a great fried who died at 42 of a heart attack. No life insurance. I watched his family suffer. We do not know if this is what happened here. If it is…then her kids will suffer because of her husband’s (of 16 years) poor judgment.
Pray you are never in the position this family finds itself.