Kooshdakhaa
Gold Member
My mail carrier's 70 year old Dad had a stroke. Because he was over 70, Kaiser refused to pay for swallowing therapy. They would pay for him to be in a hospice until he died. The family got together to pay for swallowing therapy at Cedars Sinai. They paid for part of it, and charity picked up the rest. The old man lived another 5-6 years.
Wow, who is Kaiser, they need to be avoided!
My Dad had a stroke at the age of 76. He was on Medicare and Blue Cross. Everything was covered, swallowing therapy, everything. He lived another 10 years and then had a massive heart attack at the age of 86. He was in the Intensive Care Unit for an entire month, and in the hospital for nearly two months. My sister told me that everything was covered, there was almost no out-of-pocket expense for my Dad.
He had lived with her for the past 10 years, since his stroke, and she had had enough. But she wouldn't let me take him in, because then I would need to control his finances instead of her. So she put him in a nursing home. Two weeks later, they found him dead in his chair. He had been in bed and asked them to get him up and into his chair. I don't think he wanted to die in bed.