The Big Con
Any good con has three parts: the mark — the one who is conned; the take — what the con man gets; and the fake, the illusion or purposeful distortion of reality. The bigger the take, the more marks conned, and the grander the fake, the bigger is the con. By those criteria, Medicaid’s estate recovery program, also called its “claw-back,” is a very, very big con.
Beware of the Medicaid ‘Big Con’