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In reply to the discussion: I am still in a state of shock [View all]CousinIT
(9,268 posts)... it's actually corporation-care, health care is secondary to that if even considered at all - ESPECIALLY if the patient is poor, non-white, female, or elderly. We also have among the highest - if not THE highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the WORLD - even with the fancy-dancy, corprat-profit-driven most goddamned expensive healthcare system on the freaking PLANET.
There are sadly many things that make the United States the most sadistic, immoral, greed-and-hate-driven, psychopathic nation (or one of them) --- and our so-called "health care" system is one of the biggest among those things.
It is simply UNACCEPTABLE.
EDIT: bytheway, if I were you, I'd consider suing the crap out of that hospital for sending your elderly Mom off to "rehab" with a broken hip and then calling her a liar a week later when she returned in extreme pain from it. I'd endeavor to OWN that place.