As health care costs rise and Medicaid rates lag behind, nursing and boarding homes are forcing out sick, elderly and frail residents in what advocates say is a growing trend. No official data exist on eviction counts, but discharge complaints have climbed to record highs. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
A disturbing article with direct ties to congressional Washington now dragging its heels on the stimulus bill. One alarming example of the desperate straits the free-market economic mess has caused. Contrary to crocodile remonstrations of congressional Neanderthal Neocons–and so amply demonstrated in 1932–the only entity big enough to solve our mess is the federal government. And yes, it’s a spending bill. A spending bill to alleviate suffering, one of which described in this article. Spending to help its citizens, not to pander to special interests.
Memo to Limbaughettes: exactly where the Hell are elderly people like this who are thrown out of their homes and denied critical medical care supposed to go? Just wander around in some field in their bathrobes hoping death comes quickly? A question for good Christian neocon congressional Republicans so tightly bound to their right-wing religious base: what would Jesus do?