If Father is still a wanderer living from his car, who will support/take care of him when he's released from the hospital?

Maybe this is one time Go Fund Me could/should be employed.

Surely there are enough trads to support Father.

An opportunity for trads to put their money where their mouth is.

I agree and would contribute.  Unfortunately we don’t have any details.

For clarity, it was 21 years ago that Fr. was living out of his car, and I would presume that was an interim situation after he left the SSPX and landed somewhere else.  I doubt he was living out of his car when he was chaplain for Tom Nelson, and wherever he landed after that, but who knows.

If I am understanding the situation correctly, when someone has to go into a nursing home, first, they take everything you have --- Social Security, any assets aside from the primary residence owned free and clear (I doubt he would have all that much), pension, whatever --- as well as, I would assume, anything you come into (such as GoFundMe proceeds, though those could be donated to a third party) --- and only when you are flat broke, penniless, then Medicare kicks in, and the invalid can't simply be put out on the street.  Bottom line, the nursing home gets their money, as long as there's any money there left to get.  Supposedly (IANA lawyer), your primary residence, if you own one, if sheltered for the remainder of your life, but when you die, they get any money they need from the proceeds of the estate.

And that's why I pay $29 every month for long term care insurance through Aetna.  It seems like money wasted... until it's not.

I think you're on to something with a third party.  My husband tells me Go Fund Me even takes a good chunk from the donations.
Surely Father was in touch with other independent priests.  Perhaps one of them would be willing to administer a trust fund for Father.....  as long as it isn't Father Pfeiffer.

I think you're on to something with a third party.  My husband tells me Go Fund Me even takes a good chunk from the donations.
Surely Father was in touch with other independent priests.  Perhaps one of them would be willing to administer a trust fund for Father.....  as long as it isn't Father Pfeiffer.

Whoever runs GoFundMe has to pay the various expenses (including salaries, if they have employees) one way or the other.

As far as I am aware, a voluntary third party couldn't be touched.  If Joe Blow comes in and pays a patient's nursing home bill, as I always say, IANA lawyer, but I'd say they're just happy to get the money.  I don't think they could hunt down Joe Blow and say "hey, looks like you've got some skin in this game, what else do you have, that we could have a claim to?".

They do manage to take everything you have, if that's what it takes to pay the bill, and nursing homes aren't cheap.

In some countries --- France comes immєdιαtely to mind, the masses there have never been known to be shrinking violets (not hardly) when it comes to matters of the public welfare --- now that's something they'd be rioting and storming the halls of government over.  And they would burn cars in the streets, that's something they like to do.  But not here, in the land of "it's all about the Benjamins" --- if they want your money, they'll take your money.  And nobody utters a peep, because they just take it for granted that this is the way things are, and that it's okay.

I just heard from the same guy in my e-mail --

Don’t let up with prayers, still no surgery yet, waiting to see if / will  recover.  Looks like there’s a crack in the foundation now since from what I understood they were to have removed his hand/feet yesterday and they still haven’t. What made the doctors decide to “hold off” with the amputations?   Don’t get lax, keep up the prayers and offerings! We’re not out of the woods yet.  I hope it doesn’t come down to any limbs being removed.   
S.

 

Don’t let up with prayers, still no surgery yet, waiting to see if / will  recover.  Looks like there’s a crack in the foundation now since from what I understood they were to have removed his hand/feet yesterday and they still haven’t. What made the doctors decide to “hold off” with the amputations?   Don’t get lax, keep up the prayers and offerings! We’re not out of the woods yet.  I hope it doesn’t come down to any limbs being removed.   
S.

Thank you, S and Matthew, for that. I felt sure that such drastic measures could  be avoided in this day and age.