DC tries to repeal the estate tax on 1% while Lincoln, NE will now tax estates of those on Medicaid!

U.S. House passes estate tax repeal despite veto threat: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/16/us-usa-tax-estate-idUSKBN0N723C20150416?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Here is what the NE State Legislature is doing to go after the estates of those on Medicaid.

With vote on Medicaid reimbursement bill, senators heed call to give state wider net: http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/with-vote-on-medicaid-reimbursement-bill-senators-heed-call-to/article_c9a5aafa-79b0-54c3-ac90-a716b1b68622.html

Posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:00 am
By Paul Hammel / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — A proposal advanced from first-round debate Monday aims to increase the money the state recovers after deaths to defray Medicaid expenses.

State Sen. Paul Schumacher of Columbus said the state needs to be more aggressive in collecting such funds as more and more baby boomers enter nursing homes and their bills end up being paid by Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health care for the poor.

Many people, Schumacher said, die with assets that could be recovered to pay such costs, but the state’s recovery program is netting only about $4 million a year, leaving taxpayers with the bill.

In 2003, a state study estimated Nebraska could recover $10 million a year more if it were more aggressive in seeking reimbursement, the senator said. He said the figure is probably higher now.

FULL story at link.