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To: Aleya2Fairlie

Don’t know how much of this is Obamacare, my in laws believed it was. Elderly relative taken to hospital. Had to go back soon in a relapse. The doctors were very upset because they pay a fine under medicare if they readmit the patient in less than 30 days. So then the doctor would not prescribe the oxygen needed unless the family agreed to put the patient in hospice consisting of morphine and reduced treatment. So they had to go home with the relative suffering and try to get visiting nurses to argue for oxygen. They also felt they couldn’t return to the hospital anymore. Finally they had go go with hospice, the patient did get oxygen then and died a few days later.


5 posted on 09/30/2012 4:11:08 PM PDT by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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