Legal Opinion
Miller v. Ibarra
District Court, D. Colorado
Decided September 5, 1990No. Civ. A. 89-C-7PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
CARRIGAN, District Judge.
The legal representatives of four aged, infirm and mentally incompetent women commenced this lawsuit in an effort to extricate their charges from the “Utah Gap.” That is the popular nomenclature for a “Catch 22” in state health care policy that deprives many senior citizens of Medicaid payments for nursing home expenses to which they are otherwise entitled. When their incomes are too low to enable them to pay their own nursing home costs, but too high to qualify for Medicaid benefits, these claimants are ensnared in a trap created by the…
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