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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:44 PM Original message |
Sickening story: Private investors purchasing nursing homes, making millions, patients are suffering |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. Prisons and the death of the elderly and sick |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. This has been going on for YEARS |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I know... |
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Traveling_Home (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Support Community Choice Act (S. 799) - EOM |
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LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 11:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Some are okay. I made sure before my dad had to go in one that it was okay. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sounds like mental institutions or orphanages of yesteryear. Bleech. Fuckers. |
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Traveling_Home (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. They are the Mental Institution of Today |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. Who said taking advantage of the old and helpless wasn't |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. So sad, but so true... |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. Read the article in the NYTimes today. Old, sick people are a hot commodity. |
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Traveling_Home (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. Good Thread about the Article Here...... |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 09:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
18. I can't open the link |
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Traveling_Home (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 11:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. That's their email for a DU shout out. Web is www.adapt.org eom |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 01:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. Thank You |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. Stop Whining About The Old And Infirm |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. one day, we will be them |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. my son's class was scheduled to visit a nursing home |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. I don't get it... |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 05:48 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. That's why I spoke to his teacher, she was stunned too |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 09:42 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. How about teaching the kids... |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 08:17 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I think that was the point of the trip, but the parental kibosh stopped it. |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 01:03 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Were there that many parents... |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Sounds like what they did when the privatized the VA. |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
14. Funny. |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
16. OMG. The Carlyle Group is buying nursing homes. |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 06:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. The Carlyle Group on Healthcare... |
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shenmue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
17. Bastards |
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lapislzi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
19. This is why I reserve the right to off myself at any time |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. Kick, this country is full of greedy SOB's. |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
28. Nothing new here carry on. |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
29. Why do you hate free market capitalism... |
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