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1. I suspect it happens a whole lot more than our corporate media

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Mar 5, 2013, 05:31 AM

Mar 2013

will admit.

If you're a hospital trying to make profits to pay its CEOs the millions he needs to survive, a patient whose insurance has run out is just not worth keeping around.

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I suspect it happens a whole lot more than our corporate media fasttense Mar 2013 #1

Right out of Michael Moore's "Sicko" Kolesar Mar 2013 #2

I remember that story Left Coast2020 Mar 2013 #9

Costa Mesa seems like a snooty place Kolesar Mar 2013 #10

"Greyhound therapy", proof that criminally greedy bastards CAN run psychiatric facilities. HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #3

"mental illness"? Or poverty? NT Trillo Mar 2013 #4

Not sure that was meant to reply to me, but I'll say the two are positively correlated HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #6

County sheriff depts did that here as late as 1998. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #7

We have records of "moving poor around" back in the 1700s too mainer Mar 2013 #8

I know another hospital that did this. mainer Mar 2013 #5