Believe it or not, most people reading this are going to die at SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES. They will be on Medicare and have the private health insurance HMO option. Let’s say — Health Net — but there are many and the result if usually the same. Eventually, you will get sent to a SKILLED NURSING FACILITY — it will be your last address.
Once you are with the private insurance HMO through Medicare, they will restrict what hospital you can go to. It won’t matter if you are close to a good hospital. The HMO will demand you go to some crummy hospital — it will likely be miles away. You will get crappy care and you will need more care after you leave.
If you are sick, you will get discharged to a SKILLED NURSING FACILITY. This is frequently a DEATH SENTENCE. At the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY you be received rehabilitation. For example, you might need help recovering from a surgery or procedure at the hospital and are not ready to return home. You might have physical therapy or need IVs, etc. However, at the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY you will get really bad care. They will put you in a diaper because they don’t want you getting out of bed. The staff at these facilities didn’t go into health care to help people — it is just a job — and a poor job — many will make $10 per hour or less — they don’t care if you live or die. You will develop bed sores — they will get worse. The food will be bad and you won’t feel like eating it. You will be depressed because you see that you are dying. You will continue to decline.
Instead of getting discharged back to your home, you will stay because you are now worse off than when you came in. The SKILLED NURSING FACILITY will restrict visiting hours so that your family can only see you during certain hours. During those non-visiting hours is when all the “rehab” occurs. Actually, most of it will not occur and even when it does it will be exaggerated. For example, instead of 45 minutes of physical therapy, you might get 5 minutes but it will be charted at the full time. Check — the physical therapist gets paid. Plus, if a family member declares that there was no physical therapy, it will be recorded that the patient refused the treatment. It is one of many convenient reasons for poor care.
As long as the insurance continues to pay, you will be in the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY. It will be very difficult for you to get released during this time, because you are cash in the bank. Plus, you are declining — so, how could you possibly be released since you are declining? You are declining by the design of the facility. You are going to die.
Now, you will see all sorts of banners at the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY. There will be awards they have won for doing such a great job at rehab. But these banners are just a facade. You are actually in a DEATH CAMP. No, there are no gas chambers — even though a gas chamber might be a more humane way to end your days. Yet, you will likely die and the longer you are in the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY the better are your chances of dying.
So, when you hear about Death Panels in the health reform bill, just remember America already has very effective death camps — they are the private HMO sending people to SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES.
America is doomed.
