Are you saying we should put all 70+ politicians in hospice whether they are happy or not?
I might be inclined to agree with you!
Posted on 10/17/2023 9:09:10 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A bombshell report was released this year evidencing a scandal that ranks among the worst in its evil: the euthanization of patients for the sake of profit. It made enough of a splash to spur new industry protocols but apparently not enough to stop the entrenched practice of hastening the death of hospice patients.
The November 2022 report, written by Ava Kofman for ProPublica, shows how hospice conditions create what seems to be an irresistible — and ultimately lethal — opportunity for corruption: The industry rakes in massive funds from Medicare, which delivers a flat daily cash benefit, but hospice groups must repay those funds if the average length of stay of all patients exceeds six months.
An investigation cited by Kofman’s article found that half of hospice patients in a random sample were ineligible for some or all of the care they received, a problem consistent with the testimony of hospice whistleblower Marsha Farmer. She told Kofman how her supervisor set “ungodly” quotas for hospice enrollment, and then threatened to fire employees if they didn’t meet those quotas.
Such hospice patients were “ineligible” because they weren’t near death, as Farmer testified from her own experience. This begs the question: If such patients who are not near death are being brought in for Medicare funds, and these funds must be repaid if patient stays run too long, how do these profit-driven hospices keep their cash flow going?
“One tactic was to ‘dump,’ or discharge, patients with overly long stays,” Kofman reported. But some hospices used more sinister methods.
One hospice group in Frisco, Texas was caught by the FBI trying to avoid repayment to Medicare by killing its hospice patients. The hospice owner reportedly instructed staff to overdose patients who were living “too long…”
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If you put a perfectly healthy person on a morphine drip for two weeks and do nothing else they will die.
This is what “comfort care” is.
After you get to a certain age in Canada the first question they ask you when you show up at a hospital is ‘Do you want to be on a DNR (or ‘Do Not Resuscitate’) list???
If the nurse or doctor can get you on this list, I’m pretty sure they must offer them a bonus on their next pay.
My father ended up at an emergency room back in 2013 and they asked him that question literally ‘dozens’ of times while he was there... He always said ‘No’.
They ended up giving him a pacemaker and he thankfully ended up living until 2016 when he passed at the ripe age of 87. If he had of said ‘no’, he wouldn’t have gotten that pacemaker and they could’ve saved our healthcare system big bucks. Being a veteran he was entitled to full healthcare benefits.
It’s likely just a matter of time in Canada before ‘Logan’s Run’ becomes reality, rather than science fiction. You’ll hit a certain age and they won’t give you any healthcare at all, or maybe even just euthanize you.
Free healthcare is awesome... As long as you’re healthy.
That’s the issue. They don’t just use a morphine drip. They heavily over medicate and hasten death. I saw it. I confronted them about it.
By the time you get to hospice that ship has sailed.
Your ignorance simply tells me you are one of those who show up late and expect absolution at the bedside.
I saw 19 people die in a week. The average was a week. Not 19 days. Not even close.
Have you seen a cancer patient that does not have the benefit of morphine? That is what you want.
I feel bad for you. You think we are supposed to endure pain when we die.
Tell ya what, If you go before me, I will be sure to stand by your bedside to assure your wishes are followed.
Are you saying we should put all 70+ politicians in hospice whether they are happy or not?
I might be inclined to agree with you!
When you go on a hospice program, either in a facility or hospice at home, Medicare considers that the hospice service replaces Medicare Parts A & B.
As a result further tests, treatments or specialist consultations either for the disease from which you are dying or any other pre-existing diseases are no longer covered.
The only thing covered is palliative care until you die.
So before putting a patient on hospice, be very sure the patient will die in a matter of weeks. Cancer seems to be very predictable. Cardiovascular diseases, not so much.
My father was in hospice at home for a while. At the hospice center, I did not expect them to sedate him to the point of being comotose. No, sorry, did not know that’s what they did.
You replied to the wrong person.
I was a cancer patient and I continue to have pain. AML and a bone marrow transplant. You have misunderstood, this is not about pain relief. It was euthanasia. If thst was agreed on, ok, but, that’s not what we expected.
“After you get to a certain age in Canada the first question they ask you when you show up at a hospital is ‘Do you want to be on a DNR (or ‘Do Not Resuscitate’) list???”
That’s been the case at least in my U.S. state for many years.
This was a preview of coming attractions.
Pity so many ignored it.
Also, my father was not in pain. He had pneumonia due to his emphysema.
Yeah, my wife, one week.
I’m so sorry
Cost Control...with extreme prejudice.
Will not be long before that green sticky stuff will be the main menu at most restaurants and in cans on the soup aisles...
My sister died in June. She arrived at hospice at 3:15pm and died at 3:45pm. She had a mini stroke, decided to do heart cath, and she had two major strokes and never woke up. Only thing keeping her alive was IV BP med to keep brain swelling down. Once they disconnected the IV she passed quickly. I thought a week or more but was shocked at 30min.
I included you because I thought you might be a little entertained. I’m sorry if that’s not the case. FReegards.
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