If Dolan is involved they have come to an agreement with the insurance company that they wound fund a certain amount of nursing home care in return for an agreement not to be dragged into a lawsuit.
I don't know what the financial situation is with the family. I don't know the eligibility requirements for some types of Medicaid program.
This is a unusual situation that I doubt insurance companies have guidelines on. Since they have challenged all the other rules, I would suspect they would challenge insurance payment as well.
I have seen the public speak out against insurance and government funding to pay for this. I thought the attorney was vague in response to his question about how the expenses are covered and the reason IMO, he was vague is because of those that have expressed strong opinion about how this is, or may be funded.
I don't blame the public at all for questioning how this is being funded, if it may apply to how their dollars are being spent or take away from dollars that could be allocated to the living.
I would imagine that there are some that donate to the NPO's that are assisting, that may want those donations going toward the living as well.
People have the right to know how their tax dollars are spent and how donated dollars to NPO's are allocated.
I personally, would not donate to a ******** type account. There is no way of knowing how those dollars are spent and a lot of people that did donate, may have been mislead about what is going on.
I see people donate to sites like this though all the time. Or, people send donations directly to people that create "hoaxes" online and through the media. It can be a learning lesson for some though, to make better informed judgments in the future.
It's like giving the money to the beggar on the street. There is no way of knowing if the money is going for food and shelter. In some cases it may and in other cases, it may be contributing to a substance abuse problem, which causes harm by prolonging the individual from seeking help due to their illness.
