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Poindexter v. Illinois

890 N.E.2d 410 (2008)

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Poindexter v. Illinois

Illinois Supreme Court
890 N.E.2d 410 (2008)

Facts

Robert Poindexter, Mirl Whitaker, Maurice Hardy, Virginia McCulley, and Roger Meredith (the community spouses) (plaintiffs) each had a spouse who was institutionalized in a nursing home and receiving Medicaid benefits. After the institutionalized spouses received their benefits, Illinois (defendant) sought to recover the nursing-home costs from the respective community spouses pursuant to Illinois’s spousal-support laws. The community spouses sued Illinois, seeking a declaration that the state’s spousal-support laws conflicted with the federal Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) and were thus preempted. Illinois argued that the supposedly conflicting provision in the MCCA related only to determining a person’s eligibility for Medicaid benefits and did not govern a state’s right to recover the costs of those benefits from financially able community spouses. The trial court held in the community spouses’ favor, but the appellate court reversed. The community spouses appealed.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Fitzgerald, J.)

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