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Thanks for featuring HCA predatory policies and practices. Unsaid (unless I missed it): regulators aren't all over this like a cheap suit — indicating likely regulatory capture by corporate criminals.

Meanwhile, corporate media IS spotlighting predatory Medicare 'Advantage' orgs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/23/medicare-advantage-is-popular-some-beneficiaries-feel-buyers-remorse

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Thanks for the link, Ira. I appreciate it.

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Thank you! Don’t hesitate to contact me for empirical, first hand information.

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Health care providers who care about the health and well being of 90+ year olds need to improve training and care for 90+ year olds who are old and not sick. Speech pathologists need to be retrained so 95+ year olds can eat real food rather than puree or chopped when they ask for it. All 90+ year olds are not incontinent and need to be treated with dignity and respect by placing walkers or wheelchairs close to their hospital beds so that they are able to get in and out of bed to prevent weakness and go to a toilet. As was my 99 year old dad’s habit to relieve himself, as we all do as seniors, instead of assisting him to the commode as was this WWll combat veteran’s request, his night nurse gave him a narcotic which knocked him out for two days. He hates catheters, heart monitors, heparin and blood and sugar checks every four hours, as he eats everything by himself, with a knife, fork and spoon and never has these tests in his assisted living facility. Why was he so disrespected? Moreover, if he was placed in a hospital for low O2, why were his hips X-rayed when his O2 was 90-99 the entire 5 days I was at his bedside? Medicare is not a carte blanch for hospitals to fill their bad debt at taxpayers’ expense. Schrapnel blew a hole in my father’s ear drum, so he’s hard of hearing and his hearing aids have previously been lost during hospital stays.

The baby boomers are aging up and if our medical teams don’t reeducate themselves regarding treating our elders as individuals, our society and its elders are in for severe trauma.

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Hi June, Your father has been treated shamefully by the system. I hope he is no placed where he can get the care he needs delivered with the respect he deserves. I will investigate this kind of mistreatment to see how far and wide this goes.

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