Comments by "P M" (@pm2886) on "2 Investigators: Patient 'Dumping'" video.

  1.  @earlgreco8636  As brutal as that sounds, it's true. This only happens to people who never planned ahead for old age.
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  2. Okay, but why would you assume anything can be truly free? Everything has to be paid for, in some way.
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  3.  @donnamyers2025  I've not doubt it was horrendous. Unfortunately that's how it works. It's always very important for people like your father to have someone when they need to go to the ER, so that there is clarity and understanding about all the processes. No one should be going alone. It makes things much harder for that person, and harder for doctors too.
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  4. We can only hope that people watching this realise how important it is for families to stick together. Start taking responsibility for each other again.
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  5. She was not dumped, she was removed. If she no longer had any right to be on the premises, and refuses to leave, they have to remove her.
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  6. This is an increasing problem. And there just aren't enough facilities to house all these people who can't pay. Blame social decay. People not being financially responsible, and families not supporting each other. It's getting worse, too. More and more of those who believed the seductive lie the they didn't have to plan ahead (because daddy govt would take care of them), are finding out that was all BS. Choosing to believe the lie is the error though .. because plenty of people never believed it. It was always a very obvious lie.
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  7. What did you expect them to do, though? Patients can't stay in hospital long term - they are stablised, then must move on to longer term care if that's what they need.
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  8. The Govt can't save everyone. If you've lived your life believing Govt would save you, you made a conscious choice to believe a lie.
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  9. It is sad, when families don't support their loved one. I agree.
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  10.  @mariahc6888  Who should have a social worker help them? Hospitals? While they can assist with some of that, it's not their role. Remember what hospitals are - and more importantly, what they're not. Their job is the SHORT TERM stabilisation of acute illness and injury. They are not social services, not mental health facilities. Yes they treat the sick, but that's the ONLY "need" they can cater to. If your needs are other than medical, a hospital cannot help you. Meantime, when you say 'we as a country' need to figure out a plan .. sure. This situation has been caused by people failing themselves, and/or their families, so people need to fix it. A generation ago, this stuff wasn't happening .. or happening only rarely. That's because WE (as in us, people .. not the govt) decided it was too much effort to be responsible, and too much effort to maintain strong families. This is the result. Endless homeless, endless addicts, and endless elderly people dying alone. The govt didn't do this .. we did. The govt only helped ... by promoting the welfare state that turned us into selfish overgrown children. As regards free .. you missed the point. I'm in a country with free universal healthcare, and work in the public healthcare system. I'm all for it. The point was that if any country had to feed and house every person who was on or below the poverty line, that country would be bankrupt within a year. The sheer number of people who gave up on trying, because they believed the lie that govt would take care of them, means it's now impossible.
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  11. Yes, their families. Their families need to advocate for them, and always accompany them on doctor visits etc.
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  12. That must have been unpleasant for you all ... but it's absolutely normal. No one can stay on the premises once they're discharged. Not even for 30 minutes. The reason for that is that ER's can barely keep up with the critically ill and injured who are their focus. They have to move people out quickly, so they can get on with saving the next life.
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  13. Her family discarded her?
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  14. Where do you think she should have been taken instead? And how would that not be abduction?
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  15. I'm sorry that happened to you, but hospitals simply CANNOT admit people just because they're homeless. If they did that, they would have no beds for the critical. When you're discharged, you must leave .. period. There are no exceptions.
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