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Richie Bittner's avatar

I think our current era will be named The Age Of Hypocrisy. The nursing home crisis is an extension of the health care dilemma we are in, and it is so clearly illustrated by the price of milk and gas crisis we are being told we are in by some. If and when a solution or any mitigating action is proposed, it is shot down as Socialist. Health insurance industry is a major market that does not have a real costumer , the providers and the insured alike do battler with them, and the outcome is always the same. Your doctor wastes as much time with them as she spends with you and who is better off for it? The insurance company is better off and you, (who pays them to do it), and the doctors have wasted time and energy trying to get you the care you need took part in a exercise to deny you care. Nursing homes are the final insult when it comes to taking care of the people who took care of us, and they are expensive. There is usually only one outcome from a nursing home. We can fix it so they are a place of dignity and comfort, we don't. We continue to pile dump trucks full of cash on the executives and shareholders of insurance companies while compiling about the cost to house Grandma. Read HR 676, it makes so much sense, it is doable and might actually cost less. Anyone who says we have the best health care in the world hasn't need it yet.

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Beatriz Roman's avatar

I have been visiting a dear friend who is at Warren Center on Gurney Lane in Queensbury. She is 100 years old and her mind is still quite sharp, her body, not so much. She had hopes of leaving that place to be transferred to Fort Hudson and had been told she was at the top of their list. That was months ago, and recently she told me she is beginning to be reconciled with her fate. Being in a nursing home that is understaffed is demoralizing and dehumanizing. I believe the same thing could be said for mental and health care our veterans, young and old! No one deserves that in "the richest and most advanced country in the world". And, you're right Ken, many of us are headed toward this fate if nothing changes. Thank you for bring this terrible reality to the fore. Hypocrisy and greed reigns supreme!

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