Moving Medicaid To State Would Put Children On Hook For Parent's Long Term Care. [View all]

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Chris Christie wants to move Medicaid to the states. The rest of the story is that under such a plan the children could become financially liable for their parents nursing home care. Right now only the assets of the individual in a nursing home are subject to seizure if they do not have enough money for nursing home care. Under the GOP plan with the end of the federal mandate protecting the assets of the family and children the state would be free to pass laws that would allow liens to be placed on the property of the children and maybe even grandchildren.

In the past before the medicaid law the children were liable for long term care provided by the state of parents too poor to pay for their own care.

So the children could add that burden to their student loans.