I confirm this story as fundamentally true. Healthcare-for-profit organizations will hold onto funded elderly persons as cash cows, claiming they are not ready to go home, as they deteriorate from inadequate but costly care. This is the standard business model, folks. It is well defended. You may be stuck if you get inside it. It will eat all your assets, the house, etc. It eats the sad and lonely souls who it catches very slowly. ~ John Day, MD and small farmer who works at a community-based non-profit clinic, Austin TX Building a healthy human community involves listening to the voices across the ageism of this culture, and amplifying the voices of marginalized peoples. DGR is an anti-capitalist, feminist, and social justice environmental organization. We aim to dismantle the culture of apathy that is the industrial economy. deepgreenresistance.org nakedcapitalism/2014/05/elderly-source-profit.html
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:55:08 +0000
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