I hope the community here and the collected wisdom can help me help someone else.
I have a friend who was just released from the hospital and basically sent home to die since no further treatment will help the now inoperable and untreatable cancer. He was denied entrance into a hospice care facility! Apparently his insurance will not cover it! Honestly my brain reeled - how can this be? He is too young for Medicare and the family income is too great for Medicaid. There is no way they will be able to afford home care except at some extremely minimal level, if that. What do families do in a situation like this? It's like they've fallen into some vortex. They live in New York, but I don't want to say anymore out of respect for their privacy.
How is it that families are STILL in this condition AFTER the passage of the ACA? Isn't hospice care a required coverage under the ACA? I have tried to research on my own but everything I find seems to link hospice care to Medicare and Medicaid - what about the gazillion people who don't qualify for either?
I would so appreciate it if people could point me in the right direction to get help for my friends as well as others who might fall into this category.