Corporateers have great fun making anything and everything a pay to play scenario. People without money are not invited to play. Sad but true in the United States today. Another example is the attempt to privatize the mail system.
Good nursing homes are such a blessing and sadly, very rare. I hope this town digs in their nails and keeps fighting. And to their Republican nominee for Senate, I say, I hope the life expectancy of your political run is more like five or six minutes...you carrion.
Once again, this shows how all politics is local! There were probably a lot of people who voted for Supervisors who thought their right wing policies were great until it affected them or a loved one in a nursing home. As my wise 20 something neice likes to say, "You need to vote for your values, not your wallet!"
Fact-The GOP and its extremist followers are the minority and they know it.Hence their tactics of disenfranchising voters,voter suppression,deviouness,fake news and anti democratic practices are schemes to hold on to power.Flush "The Orange Turd " and his henchman down the drain this Nov.Strengthen democracy ....vote!
Unlike most civilized countries, America has never had much use for older people. Unless we teach our children to respect them (and there are many of us) and learn from our life experience, that will not change. Profiteers never look beyond making big bucks, and a lot of politicians follow the money. May their own children turn on these people, and treat them with the same disrespect!
"Unlike most civilized countries, America has never had much use for older people."
Possibly you are Eskimo who consigned your elders to a solitary death on an ice flow in the Bering, but please don't tar the rest of us with your guilt.
Of my four grandparents, three of them lived their latter years honored and in comfort in my parents' home, one dying at age 95, two other's in their 80s. The fourth, my mother's father killed in middle age in a farm accident.
You should leave disparaging America to Donald Trump. He gets paid (or blackmailed) to do it by Vladimir Putin and Kim Il Un-hung.
Far too many nursing homes AND assisted living facilities are now owned by private equity, or something very close to it. And my experience with my father was that a place will promise anything (new carpet, internet, round-the-clock nurse on call, etc( to get a contract signed. Then--nothing. No internet, no nurse, terrible food. Money saved on patient services are used to build yet another facility with yet more suckers paying in and getting as little as possible in return. Shame on our country that we allow this.
I have been a volunteer for almost 40 years with a civil rights nonprofit that has worked in coalition to get a very inclusive anti-discrimination act passed, very comprehensive reproductive rights bills, and the first state to codify equal marriage at the ballot box. It warms my heart to know it can be done.
Corruption is NOT INCIDENTAL to trumpism/fascism. it is an INTEGRAL PART of fascism/Trumpism. Along with : worship of the all knowing God-like Leader, dictatorship and racial supremacy.
I have long believed that any sort of for-profit health care is highly immoral! The moral use of health care dollars is for supporting the best quality health care available, for fair recompense for providers and for paying administrators for processing claims. No one, much less shareholders with no stake except the bottom line, should reap a profit from cutting costs, firing workers, skimping on care, excavating quality. Exorbitant pay for corporate executives, profits and dividends to shareholders comes directly from accessibility to services and payment to providers. As a healthcare provider, I saw the quality of Blue Cross/Blue Shield deteriorate sharply when it converted from a premier nonprofit healthcare insurer to a hack for-profit corporation. Sad.
Has anyone followed the mess that Steward Health created? The Boston Globe has run many articles, but the most comprehensive are written by the Spotlight Team We are the only country in the world that allows this
Corporateers have great fun making anything and everything a pay to play scenario. People without money are not invited to play. Sad but true in the United States today. Another example is the attempt to privatize the mail system.
And let's not forget the plan to destroy public schools and turn them into bootcamps for rich kids - to teach them to be just like their parents.
Good nursing homes are such a blessing and sadly, very rare. I hope this town digs in their nails and keeps fighting. And to their Republican nominee for Senate, I say, I hope the life expectancy of your political run is more like five or six minutes...you carrion.
Moral: Whatever you do...
never
never
never
NEVER
vote for a republican.
sad.
Once again, this shows how all politics is local! There were probably a lot of people who voted for Supervisors who thought their right wing policies were great until it affected them or a loved one in a nursing home. As my wise 20 something neice likes to say, "You need to vote for your values, not your wallet!"
Fact-The GOP and its extremist followers are the minority and they know it.Hence their tactics of disenfranchising voters,voter suppression,deviouness,fake news and anti democratic practices are schemes to hold on to power.Flush "The Orange Turd " and his henchman down the drain this Nov.Strengthen democracy ....vote!
Unlike most civilized countries, America has never had much use for older people. Unless we teach our children to respect them (and there are many of us) and learn from our life experience, that will not change. Profiteers never look beyond making big bucks, and a lot of politicians follow the money. May their own children turn on these people, and treat them with the same disrespect!
"Unlike most civilized countries, America has never had much use for older people."
Possibly you are Eskimo who consigned your elders to a solitary death on an ice flow in the Bering, but please don't tar the rest of us with your guilt.
Of my four grandparents, three of them lived their latter years honored and in comfort in my parents' home, one dying at age 95, two other's in their 80s. The fourth, my mother's father killed in middle age in a farm accident.
You should leave disparaging America to Donald Trump. He gets paid (or blackmailed) to do it by Vladimir Putin and Kim Il Un-hung.
Far too many nursing homes AND assisted living facilities are now owned by private equity, or something very close to it. And my experience with my father was that a place will promise anything (new carpet, internet, round-the-clock nurse on call, etc( to get a contract signed. Then--nothing. No internet, no nurse, terrible food. Money saved on patient services are used to build yet another facility with yet more suckers paying in and getting as little as possible in return. Shame on our country that we allow this.
I have been a volunteer for almost 40 years with a civil rights nonprofit that has worked in coalition to get a very inclusive anti-discrimination act passed, very comprehensive reproductive rights bills, and the first state to codify equal marriage at the ballot box. It warms my heart to know it can be done.
Corruption is NOT INCIDENTAL to trumpism/fascism. it is an INTEGRAL PART of fascism/Trumpism. Along with : worship of the all knowing God-like Leader, dictatorship and racial supremacy.
Closed door secret meetings that affect “the people “? If there are not sunshine laws,why not?❓Greed is NOT GOOD
I guess the folks need to create some elder housing outside of the reach of the politicians.
I have long believed that any sort of for-profit health care is highly immoral! The moral use of health care dollars is for supporting the best quality health care available, for fair recompense for providers and for paying administrators for processing claims. No one, much less shareholders with no stake except the bottom line, should reap a profit from cutting costs, firing workers, skimping on care, excavating quality. Exorbitant pay for corporate executives, profits and dividends to shareholders comes directly from accessibility to services and payment to providers. As a healthcare provider, I saw the quality of Blue Cross/Blue Shield deteriorate sharply when it converted from a premier nonprofit healthcare insurer to a hack for-profit corporation. Sad.
Has anyone followed the mess that Steward Health created? The Boston Globe has run many articles, but the most comprehensive are written by the Spotlight Team We are the only country in the world that allows this