Reply #50: in a word, you're wrong [View All]

Of the $1 million settlement, Michael Schiavo received $300,000 for loss of consortium and the other $700,000 went to a Terry Schiavo's guardianship account.

In addition, Medicare is not paying for anything - it is all being done privately:

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Gary Karr, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said the agency hasn't seen a request for payment of any kind for Schiavo's care in three years.

"The care is being paid for privately," he said.

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Finally, the costs for her care is between $150 and $200 a day, over the 15 years of her residency there the cost is, therefore, between $821,000 and $1.1 million. So basically there is nothing left of the original medical malpractice award.

See here for details - http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0503240262mar24,1,6467255.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

If you have any facts, with reputable citations, to the contrary please offer them. Otherwise you're just speculating and towing the right to lifer's and conservative talk radio's line.