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Since the health insurance reform bill passed this past spring, you'd think we suddenly stopped having American patients die and suffer unimaginable horror at the hands of the corporate owned and operated healthcare business system in the United States. No one tells the stories. The reality is that patients were props, and they just aren't needed as props any more.
Who Tells the Dead Patient Stories Now?
Seeded on Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:17 PM EDT
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An estimated 45,000 preventable deaths occurring in these United States annually due to the lack of access to appropriate healthcare marches on. That does not account for those dead from other preventable causes like medical error. 45,000 every year. That’s 123 dead every day. Today’s dead: 123. Have you seen that reported anywhere? Yesterday’s dead? 123. Any reports? Tomorrow’s dead? 123. Is anyone trying to save those pending dead?
Though more Americans die preventable deaths every day without access to healthcare right here at home than die in weeks on any foreign battlefield, no one is searching for them in the wilderness of greed and profit-driven medicine. No one needs their painful realities right now.
123 Dead today.
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#1 - Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:18 PM EDTAlong with the 45,000 dead, we allowed 700,000 patients and their families to go belly-up financially in 2009. In the U.S., medical crisis leads to more than 50 percent of the personal bankruptcies (and of those patients, 75 percent had health insurance). So, as we saw personal bankruptcy filings rise 31.9 percent overall in 2009, we also added more patients and their families into our deadbeat files. Even if those folks get well physically, we’ll punish them forever for having gone broke. Bankruptcy bruised credit takes years to repair.
123 dead today. 1,917 going broke today in the midst of medical crisis. In this nation. Yet no one reports. No one.
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We have been fortunate that BHO was able to pass the Health Care Reform Act, however, it's impossible to feel the elation we want simply because it will take several years for the entire plan to come to fruition.Ms Smith's writings are acutely poignant and unbearably true.
The passing of the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act in 1996 [the beloved HIPAA legislation]has also definitely had great positive effect upon the medical field. It has also become a force with a life of its own in hiding some of the frequent horror stories: the dead, of whom we hear way too late and primarily after the fact.
My own opinion as an observer is that it has become a device to shield those in the medical profession who want no scruitiny and seems to be a device to cloak anything your [corporate] medical provider at any level, may or MAY NOT do to or for you. Nobody wants his medical records strung out all over the freeway in an accident. That has happened-and in a landfill, etc.
The sky is not falling, but I have seen so many things, having worked in the field many years ago and now with volunteer work and my friends who need a hand once in a while to know that it complicated the truth.
I've seeded an article today which I did send to this column because this place who was killing people at a pretty good pace is, indeed a corporate giant: it's Seattle, WA based Emeritus Properties NGH LLC. They have generously decided to move the 53 survivors of this faility to another of the nearly 1 dozen facilities it owns in the area. As a resident here I have a serious problem with a state that takes a year to accomplish closing a pit like this.
Would love to hear from y'all.
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