I thought everyone who got SSI receives Medicaid. Sounds like a tragic mistake to me. Inability to make a bad system work. Sometimes people really should ask for help.
On 8/16/07, J.J. Merrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to say having a mother who has MS that I can really empathize > with this guy. You have no idea what he went through and his state of > mind unless you have been there. > > -J.J. (liberal) > > > http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/16/wife.killed.ap/index.html > > Man kisses ailing wife, hurls her from balcony > > KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man threw his seriously ill wife four > stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her > medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree > murder. > > According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit > Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their > apartment and kissed her before throwing her over. > > The body of Criste Reimer, 47, was found Tuesday night outside the > apartment building, near the upscale Country Club Plaza shopping > district. > > Stanley Reimer, 51, was charged Wednesday. He remained jailed on > $250,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. > > In the probable cause statement filed with the charges, police said > Reimer was desperate because he could not pay the bills for his wife's > treatment for neurological problems and uterine cancer. > > Investigators said that Reimer was in the apartment when they arrived. > He told them, "She didn't jump," but did not elaborate, they said. > > Criste Reimer's caregiver told police she could barely walk and would > not have been able to climb over the railing of the balcony, according > to the probable cause statement. > > Reimer's alleged motive emerged after several more hours of > questioning, police said. > > According to Jackson County Probate Court records, Criste Reimer had > been in ill health for several years. Her weight had fallen to 75 > pounds and she was partly blind. > > According to the court records, she had no health insurance to pay for > medical bills that ranged from $700 to $800 per week. > > The Probate Court documents were filed in April, when Stanley Reimer > petitioned to be allowed to sell personal property his wife owned in > Wheeler County, Texas, for $20,000. > > The documents listed her assets at approximately $6,700, with monthly > income of $725 from oil royalties and Supplemental Security Income. > > It was not immediately known if Stanley Reimer had an attorney. > > -- > | J.J. Merrick > | Web Application Developer > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | p: 615-866-5068 > | http://www.cyber-jay.com > | Certified Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240587 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
