Here in the state of Illinois, which is "broke", any of our patients who are active state employees or retirees with pension insurance through the state as their secondary get their claims paid when there is money to pay them. I have claims going back to late 2012 that still aren't paid, but when the payments do come, there is always an extra check for the interest that has accrued on the payment. I probably have somewhere in the neighborhood of $2000 still out there, and at the highest point, it was around $5000, before payments started trickling in. So yeah, it stinks, but you can't get blood from a stone, as they say.