Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "LIVE: The American people are sick and tired of our collapsing and dysfunctional health care system." video.
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My mom just recently passed because of the non-existent healthcare system that we have. She literally was allowed to both starve and what ultimately caused her death couple weeks ago, she wasn't properly hydrated... at no point did they even bother to put an IV for hydration... her personal doctor came to visit and saw her in a bad state and called ER to get her out of there and told us the manager of the nursing home said sometimes you have to let Jesus to his work. $10K a month for this murder. Literal murder.
ER the blood specialist hadn't seen sodium levels as high as my mom's. Attempted to rehydrate via IV, aspiration and she got pneumonia, one lung became infected and essentially wasn't getting any O2. Couple this with brain damage from the severe sodium levels due to dehydration.
And my mom and dad both fully covered with "supplemental" coverage along with medicare/medicaid and other insurance.
This is with my youngest brother full time helping my dad at home, and my mom was only in the nursing home hoping for a short period to rehab her legs so she could walk on her own and return to home. It wasn't to be a permanent nursing home stay. Just a temp for my mom to rehab. She only had leg problems... nothing life threatening.
Instead the nursing home (the only one that was accepting anyone in the area, and still they were horribly understaffed) killed my mom.
This is disgusting. Doesn't matter if you're insured or uninsured.
It's time we follow a model that actually works. Like the UK NHS model. At least like the military, we have people staffed, yet like our Air Traffic Controllers, the NHS pays EVERYONE working in it a very good wage/salary. An LPN the persons who do most of the work including lifting, bathing, washing, feeding, etc. get paid less than many who work in fast food in this country.
We have a putrid system.
And this just adds to my other experience with this non-existent healthcare system.
Many other coworkers friends and now my mom has died due to this void for profit eugenics system.
Dying in their prime from continuous misdiagnosis allowing something otherwise simple to treat to become septic leading to death.
Dying from neglect in a nursing home for the goal of rehab to get out of the nursing home.
The highest profit margin in healthcare of the world, the highest prices gets us eugenics, absolute murder.
It's pathetic.
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