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msnbc: Health care laws leave hospitals overwhelmed by ‘permanent patients’ Under federal law, hospitals must treat any patient who needs emergency medical attention even if they have no way to pay. Nursing and rehab facilities are not required by law to do so. At the same time, hospitals cannot discharge a patient without a plan in place for his or her ongoing care.  The result is patients stuck in the hospital in need of long-term care but with nowhere to go, large medical bills, and no way to pay – a cost that is usually covered at the hospital’s expense. Image: Garrick Amato (NBC News) How long will it take before we as a society get it through our thick skulls that the PROBLEM is that the system we have in place is set up to deny care to people who need it most, rather than the fact that these people need care? I mean, how dare people get sick without becoming a millionaire first?! How selfish!

msnbc:

Health care laws leave hospitals overwhelmed by ‘permanent patients’

Under federal law, hospitals must treat any patient who needs emergency medical attention even if they have no way to pay. Nursing and rehab facilities are not required by law to do so. At the same time, hospitals cannot discharge a patient without a plan in place for his or her ongoing care. 

The result is patients stuck in the hospital in need of long-term care but with nowhere to go, large medical bills, and no way to pay – a cost that is usually covered at the hospital’s expense.

Image: Garrick Amato (NBC News)

How long will it take before we as a society get it through our thick skulls that the PROBLEM is that the system we have in place is set up to deny care to people who need it most, rather than the fact that these people need care? I mean, how dare people get sick without becoming a millionaire first?! How selfish!

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

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