The alternative would be to do a “social admit” for disposition purposes, which would overload an already full system, further driving up costs. It would make more sense if the hospitals were given financial support for this, rather than fighting off potential lawsuits.
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I hope this lawyer is successful. It would FINALLY bankrupt the entire health care system and turn city hospitals into homeless shelters. I’m sure this legislator wouldn’t allow his daughter to sit in my ER waiting room full of homeless people.
What is a hospital supposed to do? House them, clothe them, and feed them indefinately?
they don’t need food. Just beer. Your tax dollars hard at work. No wonder so many of us pay the AMT.
I think the main objection was not that the homeless were being discharged to the streets, but that they were being driven to the streets of neighboring cities.
I’ve actually seen homeless patients here in Boston who were put on an airplane by the Police out in California and got a paid one way ticket to Massachusetts so they would stop sucking up public tax dollars out West.
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