Heather Bryant
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It's just so stupid.
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It's just so stupid.
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Iowa Medicaid Sends $4M Bills to Two Families Grieving Deaths of Loved Ones With Disabilities - KFF Health News
States are required to claw back health care costs from the estates of many Medicaid recipients. Some, including Iowa, are particularly aggressive in their pursuit.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Medicaid Estate Recovery effectively makes Medicaid assistance into a kind of loan with a demand for payment from an estate after the death of the beneficiary, creating a burden for their loved ones and transferring what little wealth low income families might have accumulated to the government.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Medicaid Estate Recovery effectively makes Medicaid assistance into a kind of loan with a demand for payment from an estate after the death of the beneficiary, creating a burden for their loved ones and transferring what little wealth low income families might have accumulated to the government.
Perhaps, but also I am also wondering about not stretching the meaning of a term like "tool" in order to accommodate new things when the concept, implications, and considerations are sufficiently different to warrant new terminology that could produce more thoughtful analysis.
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Perhaps, but also I am also wondering about not stretching the meaning of a term like "tool" in order to accommodate new things when the concept, implications, and considerations are sufficiently different to warrant new terminology that could produce more thoughtful analysis.
I don't think that's the entirety of it but it's certainly a piece of it.
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I don't think that's the entirety of it but it's certainly a piece of it.
I think that dependency is what takes it out of the realm of being a "tool" and into being something else we might not yet have the right word for.
October 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I think that dependency is what takes it out of the realm of being a "tool" and into being something else we might not yet have the right word for.