Give me a break. For profit hospitals have been dealing with this forever and they have made money, it is only recently that they have sought ways to avoid their duty and make even more money.
Regency is discontinuing care as a way to get the kids to move mama to a long-term care facility. Regency is acute care.
Hospitals do not make money on patients who do not have insurance or have no other source for remuneration. They were able to get away with it in the past due to their willingness to jack up prices across the board, thus causing you and me to subsidize the costs of others. Or, rather, to have our insurance companies subsidize those costs.
Insurance companies are now less willing to do that. Hospitals have to deal with the current environment.
What's wrong with transferring her to a hospital that will take her?
Forget it. You are talking to folks who think it was illegal for Terri to have a sip of water, or even a ice chip on her parced lips while dying.