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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 06:48 PM Original message |
3 charged in elder abuse case (didn't take mom to hospital, she was uninsured) |
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pfitz59 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. The truth is in there somewhere |
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rkennedy_68 (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-31-10 06:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. Lieberman is a waste of space |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. Medicare? |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 06:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. While most of the elderly qualify for Medicare |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. You can still get it if you pay a premium. I don't think it would be that much. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 06:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. At her age she was eligible for Medicare Part A, which is hospitalization, |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. She might not have been able to pay $100/month for Part A, or |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Part A does not cost $100. You are thinking of Part B. Part A. would have prevented this |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Medicare does not cover all longterm care. |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 09:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. It does cover 100 days of nursing home upon referal from hospital. |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 09:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Whatever. All I know is that $96.60 is withheld from my check each month |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-15-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. The money withheld is for Part B. |
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logosoco (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. There may be more to this story, |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. At 94, my mother lay in a hospital bed, pretty helpless and she was close to death. . |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. You are right. Wouldn't have |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. I suspect they were protecting their inheritance |
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bc3000 (766 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 08:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. That's what it sounds like to me too |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 09:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. what 'inheritance' would that be...? |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 09:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Even dirt poor people wipe their bed ridden mother's dirty asses |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 11:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. most of the 'houses of squalor' that end up on the news aren't exactly in well-to-do neighborhoods. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. This is bullshit |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-14-10 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. When I worked as an aide, an older woman was admitted |
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rkennedy_68 (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-31-10 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. devastating stuff |
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