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There is NO FREE LUNCH! --75.7.xx.xx

I have only heard old news about Medicaid patients being put in back hallways and not given the same care as others. Seems like Medicaid needs to be beefed up to keep these folks with a roof over their heads and adequate care. Sounds like we need a Mother Theresa here in the US. She cared for homeless dying people in India. --71.104.xx.xxx

On the other hand if you are a mooch, never paid taxes and are an illegal immigrant to California, even with a criminal record, then this sanctuary State will find a way to accommodate you by forcing costs onto the Fed's. --47.155.xx.xxx

Not just nursing homes - have heard of hospitals having to evict patients who like free food and being waited on hand and foot with free utilities . . . One patient pretended to be sick to get a free "apartment" in the local hospital then had to be evicted after several months . . . --174.65.x.xxx

Illegal immigrants are ineligible for most government programs. Your assumptions are faulty. --50.5.xxx.xx

Had simular experience and our bill was paid, to the tune of $8k a month. The care facility sent motherinlaw to the hospital. Told the family she is in ambulance headed to "A" hospital, we drive there, they don't have her, call care facility,,, they say oh she is at "B" hospital,,, we go there and find her. At midnight they release her, we drive her back to Care Facility, they will not let her in!! We had to host her for the night, with no extra cloths, no medicines, and only love for directions! We did it of course, but geez what they heck is goin on,,, she lives at the Care facility address and that is where HOME Is for her and all her help. That is what is paid for. We had to go up the food chain to get her back into her own room/residency. This was four years ago. Not sure much has changed or what the issue was. What do people do who do not have family or kids or resources to deal with such. She was not a difficult to care for person either, we were totally confused. --99.203.xx.xxx

do you do anything special ?? shouldn't a renter who gets a splinter once LEARN TO WEAR SHOES!? Why are they complaining to me. It's wood, it's a deck, wear your shoes! Just venting. Carry on. --99.203.xx.xxx

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Wow - Lana - you have tremendous experience and insight. What you have described and explained is exactly how I’ve come to believe how it all works. Another subject is big pharma- talking about profit. Seems like everyone of those thousands of t.v. drug ads say “tell your doctor.....” Patients told to tell doctors to sell big for pharma. Creeps me out! --160.3.xx.xxx

Somebody has to let our Pres know about this. Can I copy your post Lana and put it where someone can find it? Seems like people who put their hospital care business on the stock market are making it a bigger deal than it has to be. No personal oversight. So YOU are a Mother Theresa, Lana. --71.104.xx.xxx

I too work in healthcare. I respect the skill set of our bright physicians but stop short of praising them as mother Theresa! --107.77.xxx.x

Interesting to compare the US socialized medical system to the Mexican system - in Mexico, when you go to the hospital, before the doctor sees you, the nurse takes you to the cashier where you prepay for the hospital care in advance. If you are in an accident and unconscious, the hospital cares for you then security guards keep you from leaving until your family pays the hospital. Many stories about Americans who have accidents in Mexico then discover that Mexico is very strict about people paying their bills - car accident with no insurance? You go to jail to make sure you are around to pay the damages . . . --174.65.x.xxx

This happened with my father-in-law. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s at 53. We had him move in with us, he was with us about a year, raised his voice to me a couple times but nothing major. When he got aggressive with my wife and kids we had to get him into an assisted living home that specialized in memory care. He private paid and everything was fine. This was after all what they dealt with being a memory care facility, nothing they haven’t seen before they told us. All was good until his savings ran out, then Medicare paid and they moved him to a shared room. Then we got a call 1 day that he was transferred to the ER because of an outburst, (the same type outbursts that they told us were not an issue when he was privately paying, he was yelling and not wanting to do something) and he could not come back. At the hospital he became very agitated, understandably. He had an unknown allergy to the medicine the Dr’s in the ER gave him to sedate him and he passed away 4 days later at 59. This sort of thing with nursing homes kicking out low profit patients is nothing new from what I’ve seen. --70.20.xx.xx

You know just maybe a comprehensive health plan for the US would prevent this nonsense. I don't see news stories about people being evicted from Canadian nursing home... well because it doesn't happen. --50.5.xxx.xx

Never heard of anyone getting evicted from a nursing home here. When income from pension is insufficient to cover monthly costs for service there are government programs people can apply for that happened when it transferred from provincial to federal. We have universal medical care here which is not free as there higher taxes to pay for. Lottery winnings are tax free. There is a 13 per cent HST sales tax in Ontario along with natural gas, electricity is taxed as well along with taxes on every litre of gasoline where a litre of gasoline varies around a dollar a litre. During the Covid 19 crisis there were a lot deaths in long care homes where at one point the military was called in. Now the amount of people with the Covid 19 crisis is low along with few deaths on and off. There are places for tests. Wearing masks is required in all indoor places. Now after crisis people who work at long care can not work part time at different long care homes where higher wages will be required. --147.194.xxx.xx

Bill, Lana helped dying people like Mother Theresa did in India. Mother Theresa, a canonized saint now, would get them off the streets and bring them to their hospital and care for them until they passed. I would hesitate to call physicians who do not work directly with dying people, Mother Theresa, as that does not apply. Understand now? She said "I have placed nursing home patients by the thousands." --71.104.xx.xxx

www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/canadian-military-details-horrific-conditions-in-nursing-homes-battling-covid-19-282605 --64.130.xx.xxx

and deductible cost year over year is unsustainable. Unless salaries rise significantly no one below the $60K threshold will be able to afford the $10K per year which will only get worse. Health care policy by presidential Executive orders is stupid and you and I pay for it. PS I bet there are more nursing homes in the US falling apart over Covid than anywhere else. --50.5.xxx.xx

At the time of the politico article (may) about 6600 people had died in all of Canada for Covid. The freopp article was written in the same month and 12,500 people had died of Covid in nursing homes in TX. That was 42% of the overall deaths for Covid in TX at that time. I think Canadas numbers speak for themselves. --50.5.xxx.xx

The problems in the nursing homes were due to staff working part time at a few different nursing homes where the pandemic spread. The military was called in to run the nursing homes until staff was available. Now part time workers will not be allowed where full time staff only. During the pandemic the hospitals were at limits. Between Europe and other countries it between to systems where not as socialist here as Europe then not as right as other countries. No matter income or working or not everyone here gets basic medical care along with more specialized treatment like surgery, ICU and so on. Modern medicine is expensive where health is essential. Remember watching Fox news who came up here to trash the health care system here where never the majority people here if would not trade for another system. Some countries have two tier health care system of public and private where people can elect to go to private insurance. Some feel they can get better treatment with a private plan. --147.194.xxx.xx

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