Medicaid shift faces challenge

By Brendan McCarthy, Globe Correspondent, 8/27/2003

An eight-week-old law that allows Massachusetts to sell homes of some
elderly Medicaid recipients after they die has come back under scrutiny on
Beacon Hill.

The law, part of the budget approved by state lawmakers and signed by
Governor Mitt Romney, enables the state to collect some deceased Medicaid
recipients' assets and estates in an attempt to recoup health care costs.
Legislators and state health care officials outlined the law yesterday at a
crowded news conference at the State House, and some lawmakers said they
are already taking steps to repeal the measure.

"Perhaps we were a little hasty in passing this legislation," said
Representative Thomas N. George, a Yarmouth Republican. "This change should
not have come in one of the 700 outside sections of the budget."

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