SCOTUS to Decide Whether Florida Can Take $300,000 in Settlement Funds Meant for Child in Vegetative

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8. Well, it's a pay me now or pay me later kind of thing here. Florida might recover the

$300,000 from them, but $800,000 over a lifetime of care for a person in a vegetative state is a drop in the bucket. They'll be on the hook for Medicaid payments for her far beyond $300,000. Florida should drop it and let the family use the $800,000 to improve their living conditions which are not something covered by Medicaid, but which the injured girl can benefit from (unless she's in an institution of some kind, of course).