"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I think that this story is a play for socialized medicine. Especially with the "rising costs of medicine" etc etc etc quotes.
I also think that...if the level of care is there, and everyone involved wants to do it...why not?
He probably can’t sue for malpractice if something goes wrong; but, 99% of his parents’ peers here in the US probably aren’t looking for someone to sue anyway. It’s the 1% who think they’ve found the gravy train who drive up costs here.
I hear they curry to every need.
Wow, something new to threaten my mother with. She’ll behave for a while, and then I’ll have to come up with another new threat. She’s still worried about that nursing home I saw on 60 Minutes years ago.
When you consider that half the doctors in this country are Indians anyway, I'm not sure there's any disadvantage to getting your medical work done abroad ... except for the long plane ride.
BTTT
The air in Mumbai is so polluted I get a sinus infection just thinking about it.
Not sure what to think here!
On the one hand, as a computer support geek, outsourcing to India has put a very noticable dent in my job prospects over the last few years. In the 1990s, I was constantly receiving job offers. Now I have trouble getting interviews.
On the other, from 2000 to 2004 I was the sole caregiver for my father after his stroke. 24x7x365, with a minor break if I could find a friend to watch him while I went to the store.
It was physically and mentally draining. Tube feeding, crushing his rock-hard pills to pump through his feeding tube, bathing him, cleaning him and changing him after movements, transfering him to his chair, turning his fan up, turning it down, finding his TV remote lost in his bedcovers.
I imagine as a regular, 40 hours a week job, go home when you are done, it would still be tough. But when you are CONSTANTLY on call, getting woken when your patient is banging the floor with his cane at 3:00am because he can’t find the remote...it can get crushing!
Sorry, but I think this disgusting. If the man couldn't care for his parents because it was too much of a burden for his life - well fine, OK, I can understand that. However, the money aspect of this makes no sense - morally. If his parents had less than $2,000 left and put their Social Security payments into a "Miller Trust" they'd be eligible for Medicaid payments to the nursing home, and Herzfeld could locate them nearby so he could visit them. None of HIS financial resources would be needed to pay for their housing, drugs or care.
Best of all, the plentiful drugs the couple require cost less than 20 percent of what they do at home, and salaries for their six-person staff are so cheap that the pair now bank $1,000 a month of their $3,000 Social Security payment.
Here you go - the SOB is more interested in getting an inheritance than in being near his parents in their time of gravest need. What a caring, loving son (hawk, spit).
Either they severely mistreated him as a child, or he got an extra helping of the extremely self-centered, spoiled baby-boomer gene. I vote for the latter. This guy makes me sick.
My parents can stay here. I'm going!
**psstsoylentgreenispeople**
Daily massages? I’m not sure I see the problem here.
Also, this avoids the problem of the “drop in.”
The headline makes it sound bad. But if you read the article it shows a different story. The guy had previously lived in India and he went with them. Sounds like a good solution to me.