Posted on 02/28/2017 1:53:40 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: The U.K. Guardian: “Doctors Could Prescribe Houses to the Homeless Under Radical Hawaii Bill — Newly introduced bill would classify homelessness as a medical condition, as research suggests health care spending falls when people have been housed.” Homeless cases “have prompted a groundbreaking new proposal in Hawaii. Instead of prescribing medication to homeless patients like Williams, what if doctors could prescribe something else that might ameliorate their health problems more effectively?
“The prescription would be housing. With this aim in mind, a state senator, Josh Green, has introduced a bill to classify homelessness as a medical condition.” This guy’s a doctor. “[T]he idea originated in his own work in the emergency room, where he saw many homeless patients arrive for treatment of basic conditions at great expense, but no real long-term benefit. ‘I’m really just applying a band-aid [sic],’ he said of his medical work. ‘But these problems require intensive long-term support,'” such as a house.
So, and again, the reason for this is that “research suggests health care spending falls when people have been housed.”
From each according to their ability,........
What a great idea! Can I go to Hawaii, be diagnosed as homeless, and get free housing for a couple of weeks?
Of course, it would be wrong if rich people got better medical treatment for homelessness than poor people. So they can put me up at Obama’s place on the beach.
Gee! I wonder who’s paying for the “rooms”? I think I have an idea who is however...and it’s not people who pay the taxes and have their “hard earned” money ripped from their hands by the government to ensure a larger bloated bureaucracy to manage it.
By the good doctors reasoning, so are risky behaviors, poor personal choices and substance abuse “medical conditions...
But housing such persons on the taxpayers’ dime won’t touch those problems either...
I was on the big island this past October.(Kona) They are all over the place.
That you Rush?
Quoting yourself again?
Crap ... I couldn’t get my Dr to prescribe a hot tub when recovering from a broken back ....had to do rehab at three times the price
Fine. Put them in a barracks. Feed them on a chow line. Wake them up at dawn, and have them working. . . .
I was at our city council meeting last night. They discussed a homeless camp that they are trying to figure out what to do with. Some skull full of mush graduate student in social pathologies or some such nonsense stood up and suggested that the city pay homeless $10 an hour to clean up trash. But it’s their own trash. No.
I could see hiring them for real jobs albeit menial, but not to clean their own camp.
“Fine. Put them in a barracks. Feed them on a chow line. Wake them up at dawn, and have them working. . . .”
That’s what they did in the last great depression.
What’s wrong with it? Instead of creating a black market for food stamps, just serve food.
Doctors “prescribing” housing is just silly.
A lot of homeless people suffer from a weird phobia about being indoors and living in one place consistently.
They CHOOSE homelessness.
They complain that they don’t feel “safe” in a bed at a homeless shelter. They PREFER to sleep on pavement in a garbage-strewn alley.
They like to keep moving, pushing all their belongings in a shopping cart, dumpster-diving for food, because that’s their idea of freedom and safety from the demons they believe are chasing them.
It’s mental illness, folks.
We’ve spent billions on homeless programs, and the “doctors” still don’t grasp this?
You are correct. Put them all in houses.....and in a week, most would be back on the street. This happened when the compassionate nanny-state liberals thought they were doing a good deed by shutting down most of the mental asylums across the country.
The rooms would be trashed within a week, and declared unlivable within the month.
If you pay them, feed them, clothe them, house them, cuddle them... they will come.
“The rooms would be trashed within a week, and declared unlivable within the month.”
What? You’re just going to throw them in an empty house? No, no, no. You have to provide a full time nurse, full time maid, full time cook, properly stocked fridge and pantry, clean needles, pot, access to counselor/lawyer in case care is not up to snuff...
I need to be proscribed a mansion with an indoor pool.
I’ll also take a putting green on my grounds...
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