re: 800+ nursing home residents in warehouse in Independence update page 4

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Well, these nursing home people were supposed to be taken care of by the nursing home or their families (depending on the health of the patient).

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real talk/tough love

anyone who winds up in one of those houses of horror has been abandoned by their families and the blame lies squarely on them. these are not high-end facilities that sent their patients to a fricking warehouse, they are the disposable forgotten wards of the state who exist now only to bilk medicare/medicaid.

i realize that some people age out alone/without means, and i realize that the burden of elder care strains the capability of many. but the fact is that the majority of the patients living in these chop shops are simply being passed from a living welfare program to a dying one. it is a stain upon our society that this is allowed to happen, but that does not absolve personal responsibility on the part of the relatives of the aged.