A Fitting Final Gift From Jimmy Carter

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58. Ther OP was premised on exemplifying Carter's 6 months stay.

Do you believe Medicare or an affordable private insurance will cover that? I knew a woman dying of cancer who was evicted from hospice after 5 weeks even though she had "affordable insurance" which, it turned out, refused to pay the hospice's rates. I'm not sure what her situation with Medicaid was, but being Florida, it did in no way intervene. She lasted 8 weeks after the eviction. Somehow, they relented and allowed her to return for her last week of life. I suspect her doctor intervened some way, but the only certain thing I know is that by then she and her husband had exhausted all their resources. Her employer sponsored a crowd funding web site which was their only source of funds for her last month. Her husband was also dealing with "Desert Storm" PTSD the whole time. It was very all around sad for everyone.

A toast, everyone, to Ginger, a real person who faced real "monsters".