My mom has cancer and stepdad is threatening divorce (insurance experts weigh in)

[stezus]

So maybe i'll give the full scoop on how bad this situation is in another thread, but in summary I'm living at home as a caretaker with my mom and stepdad. My stepdad is probably somewhere on the spectrum and works from home doing IT. Well he does IT so I guess it's redundant to say he's on the spectrum, but he has basically no communication skills and my mom thought it'd be a good idea to marry him.
So now we're up **** creek with pancreatic cancer (stage 2) doing chemo, and they are quarelling now over nonsense and he won't communicate like a human being, over which I have tried my best to mediate and tone down, but it's now at the point where I said I'm done dealing with your relationship problems and other people have to get involved or you get counseling or whatever.
Anyway he keeps bringing up divorce. Honestly I'd be so happy if he were out of the picture, but she's on his insurance. Does anyone know how this might look with the insurance if that happened? Without him she would certainly qualify for medicaid.
My ONLY concern is her being without insurance

[stezus]

I'll be promptly posting pics of Shaq soon..

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[muscle beast]

Talk to her current doctor/hospital right now and find out what kinds of alternative insurance they accept and if they accept medicaid/medicare. If they do, then at least she has that in her back pocket. Otherwise, start contacting other nearby hospitals/doctors to find out which specialist take medicaid and then go from there.

[Fuqdatass]

Why don’t you beat his ass?

Gonna let him style on your cancer ridden mom like that? You’re SOFT bro

[stezus]

Talk to her current doctor/hospital right now and find out what kinds of alternative insurance they accept and if they accept medicaid/medicare. If they do, then at least she has that in her back pocket. Otherwise, start contacting other nearby hospitals/doctors to find out which specialist take medicaid and then go from there.

Thanks buddy, good plan. I'm just hoping it would be a seamless transition and no lapse

Why don’t you beat his ass?

Gonna let him style on your cancer ridden mom like that? You’re SOFT bro

That already happened. As I said I didn't give the whole story, just what's relevant for the question

[snailsrus]

She’ll get disability, Medicare
“A person who has been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer will automatically qualify for Social Security disability benefits, since the SSA has determined that Pancreatic Cancer is one of the illnesses that meet disability standards. The result is that your disability case can be expedited, which means that the approval process can be completed in weeks, not years. If all of the correct documents are present and in order, you can expect your case to be completed in less than a month.”

But she can also get Medicare quickly

[stezus]

She’ll get disability, Medicare
“A person who has been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer will automatically qualify for Social Security disability benefits, since the SSA has determined that Pancreatic Cancer is one of the illnesses that meet disability standards. The result is that your disability case can be expedited, which means that the approval process can be completed in weeks, not years. If all of the correct documents are present and in order, you can expect your case to be completed in less than a month.”

But she can also get Medicare quickly

Omg you're the f*cking man. Thank you so much bro
And the other guy earlier too
That's a biiiig help right now reps for life

[rgnx]

Why don’t you beat his ass?

Gonna let him style on your cancer ridden mom like that? You’re SOFT bro

Because this man is thinking about what's best for his mother instead of acting out of emotion and impulse?

Goodluck OP and good job being there for mother.

[stezus]

Because this man is thinking about what's best for his mother instead of acting out of emotion and impulse?

Yea, i got confrontational with him a couple times for upsetting her, but i quickly realized that approach goes absolutely nowhere fast. I'm glad i didn't, cause i usually take that neanderthal approach. It's not what civilized people do

Goodluck OP and good job being there for mother.

Thanks partner

[EoR]

Horrible news, especially where it's located but well done not getting physical with him. That definitely won't help. Medical costs and insurance issues are another sad hardship cancer suffers have to endure. All you can do is ask doctors for your options, either way where I live you're going to end up paying large amounts regardless of how much you get back from insurance. We have a sort of medicaid system here too, but it's not that good especially for something serious as cancer.

[snailsrus]

Omg you're the f*cking man. Thank you so much bro
And the other guy earlier too
That's a biiiig help right now reps for life

If she wants Medicaid and food stamps that also is about a month and she can get help with utilities

[snailsrus]

Horrible news, especially where it's located but well done not getting physical with him. That definitely won't help. Medical costs and insurance issues are another sad hardship cancer suffers have to endure. All you can do is ask doctors for your options, either way where I live you're going to end up paying large amounts regardless of how much you get back from insurance. We have a sort of medicaid system here too, but it's not that good especially for something serious as cancer.

well if you have no money and run up a medical bill in Cali and you write up/fill out the paper work for medical debt forgiveness programs. My sisters husband got a rare cancer with no health insurance and it takes you out in 2 months. He spent that time in the icu and it was over half a million and they forgave everything when it showed she had no money at the time of the death because it took four years to settle the trust

[Kiop]

all i can say
wish your mom well
and hope she gets well soon.

[EternaLovE]

i wish your mother the best of her recovery. hope she does recover from it. and please continue to beat the chit out of that cowardly fuk.

[bongowongo]

Sorry to hear bro, I wish your mum a quick speedy recovery and to kick it in the nuts. Glad to hear you're looking after her and hopefully you both can be rid of your kunt stepfather.

[401Delta]

Why don’t you beat his ass?

Gonna let him style on your cancer ridden mom like that? You’re SOFT bro

This.

Get you a handful of stem cells out of his ass, too, while you're at it.

[Schnitzl]

Thanks for the Shaq pictures by the way.

Also good luck to your mom.