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…”
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
what does one expect from a government that wants one dead.
“Euthanasia always follows abortion…”
Exactly right. Devalue unborn life to nothing and the logical consequence is anything goes.
It also coarsens and debases society as a whole.
What if we put dems in comas and drop off at hospice???? Just saying........
Then Right To Die becomes Duty To Die.
They’re already brain-dead, so all that’s really needed is the paperwork and a hole in the ground.
Aktion T-4
The average hospice duration is 19 days.
Then people die.
My personal and professional experiences with Hospice facilities and Hospice staff are 180 degrees from what this story says.
Their job is to make dying comfortable. They are not supposed to “nurse people to health.”
I’ve seen a lot of people who don’t comprehend that. There are a lot of people who show up at the last minute and wonder what is going on. Those people don’t get much sympathy from me.
I realize now its why, for millennia, Christians ran hospitals - because its always eventually revealed that if government does it, the focus will always be on politics, power and money.
The Left wing and Islam have one important thing in common. They are cultures of DEATH.
50 years ago, you might have a hospital run by a city or county, but most hospitals were affiliated with a Protestant denomination or a Catholic clergy order like the Dominicans. These hospitals were run according to Biblical principles. Most of these church related hospitals were either taken over by a corporate conglomerate or have closed. There were always high expenses for things like cancer therapy, but the hospitals were nonprofit organizations.
Old mostly-Whities aren’t dying fast enough. Their replacements are here and collecting the benefit of the old Whiteys’ hard labor.
Each old Whitey that they kill makes room for one more Great Replacement.
Progressives cheapen the sanctity of life to the point when it becomes null and void.
This current government is hell bent on killing us off one way or another.
You know what you’re talking about - they’ll probably kick you out.
The hospice movement had good intentions, I hope... But just like everything else it’s turned into a scam and all the medical community encourages it encourages it and gets there little piece of the pie.
I saw it when my father was in hospice years ago. I realize people are dying when in hospice, but what I saw was on a whole other level.
Yes they make patients comfortable and they are kind, while speeding up the death process.
Also known as “comfort care”.
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