Woman Overstays Hospital Stay by a Year

hosted.ap.org ^ | Feb 16, 2005 | BRIAN SKOLOFF

[endthematrix]

"We're really not interested in her money"

Taxpayers will pickup the $1 million tab of course. Wonder why there's a health care problem?

[endthematrix]

...and she's suing?

[kizzdogg]

She passes the time by reading in bed and gazing out the window.

Can't she do that in jail? Where she should be for fraud. Is this fraud? It can't be legal whatever it is.

[Carolinamom]

Why doesn't she live w/her daughter? Is her daughter homeless and living on the streets?

[DB]

As far as I know Kaiser is a private hospital.

[HMFIC]

Another of the aging GIMME-GIMME generation eager to live off of the sweat of others. I'd bet a YEAR's salary she's voted DIM-O-WIT her whole life.

[MadAnthony1776]

Someone in the family isn't playing with a full deck. In the meantime I guess everyone else will have to pay for her to take up a bed that should go to someone who needs it. Her daughter must be a real winner because she should either place her in another nursing home or bring her home. To leave her in the hospital where she shouldn't be is not the answer.

[GOP_Proud]

Go live with your daughter. That's what families do. What's missing from this picture?

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Yea maybe the daughter is tired of her mom's crap? maybe that's why she leaves her in the hospital... Convenient drop off for unwanted DUtrash.

[Kimmers]

I think other than this women the health care system is not paying with a full deck...something wrong with a system that this woman can make these demands and can rack up a bill like this and never pay it..why is she allowed to get away with this...if the hospital had found a good suitable nursing home outside of the county and shipped her there...lawsuits would have been filed...and we all know the rest of the story...sounds like the insane are in control of the asylum

[alloysteel]

It has been a danged awfully high-priced hotel, though, hasn't it?

[Tensgrrl]

We call this a "crowbar discharge"

[FormerACLUmember]

The Trial Lawyer wing of the democrat party is systematically ruining the finest medical system on earth.

[solitas]

She passes the time by reading in bed and gazing out the window.

step 1 - anesthesize the patient (it's what hospitals do all the time)
step 2 - open the window
step 3 - steer her bed over to the window (assuming its on wheels; otherwise: drag it)
step 4 - tip the bed
step 5 - close the window it's getting cold in here

[em2vn]

"....aging GIMME-GIMME generation...." What generation might that be, the generation that fought World War II, built the American middle class and put men men on the moon?

[aruanan]

Taxpayers will pickup the $1 million tab of course. Wonder why there's a health care problem?

No, people who use this hospital will pick up the tab.

[whershey]

It's not fraud. She's said she doesn't need to be hospitalized. The problem is they can't just kick her out on the street. I'm willing to wager that they'd have an extremely hard time placing her in any nursing home at this point. Their best bet is putting pressure on her daughter which is what they're doing by charging for the room.

[rdcorso]

Her lawsuit against the nursing home that sent her to the hospital for a psychological evaluation is ridiculous.The hospital should have removed her from the building a long time ago and forced the daughter to either take her in or bring her to the homeless shelter.If this stunt was tried by a younger person they would have been thrown out or arrested on the first day.