It depends on the state. Some states have filial responsibility laws which require adult children to support indigent parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws?wpr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws?wpr...
It sounds like a good startup. Do background checks on homeless people, see if they have any living relatives, and if so you can house them in a nursing home and charge the relatives.
Are they fair? I mean ... sometimes? These laws (supposedly) solved a problem where parents would bequeath their estate to their children prior the parents' death and, then, the children would leave their parents destitute. It's not clear how much of a problem this really was (think "19th century); it was probably just a popular image that politicians used as a talking point?
My suspicion is you'd need to use jury nullification to make the law "go away".
That is literally inheriting debt. That should be illegal, yet almost half the country allows this.
This reminds me of tobacco tax to pay for children’s healthcare initiative. As if the responsibility sits directly with cigarette smokers. It sits on all of us, not one person. Impoverished elderly people that need medical care should receive aid from the state indiscriminately where we all foot the bill.