"Greatest Country On Earth!" and  "I dun want socialized helthcare becuz I dun wanna pay fer someone else." Come to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFJsFdgMkYE

This morning my buddy hit me up with this stating "Do you have some rage to spare this early?" He knows because I work for a large hospital that is also a Non-Profit. Like both of the hospitals in this story. I'm also very aware of EMTALA regulations where are given the nickname of 'Anti-Dumping Laws.' Now, am I surprised that the oozing sphincter that keeps shitting out Mitch McConnell onto our collective doorsteps year after year, No. Because if they're will doing to force him on all of us, imagine what they're willing to do to their own neighbors. But what gets me (it ALL fucking gets me really) is this:

THREE GROWN ASS MEN. Walking an 87 year old homeless woman who can barely walk, with Diabetes and COPD, acting like she's about to become an active shooter, or cosplaying what copes in Uvalde thing they look like. Now I'm sure in the FINE state of Kentucky there is no motive or action that is done based on her age, skin color, or status as one of our homeless in the RICHEST. COUNTRY. EVER. But you're telling me even if this woman needed to be escorted out, that you needed THREE people with god damn tasers to do it?

And this was after a doctor met with her and decided that they just WEREN'T going to treat her. What happened to do no harm? What happened to the right of 'appropriate medical care'? And I know the answer, its the same answer I read yesterday about the only PRIVATELY run Internment Camp in Nazi Germany. That they were cruel because of their 'obligation to the Shareholders.' Which again begs the question, in a Country where our founding document identifies the right to '...Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" WHY does a HEALTH SERVICE HAVE A GOD DAMN CEO.

And I realize I work for a hospital, I'm bitching about a world I at times support with my actions. But I'm also an American, and a part of the Military. And I will bitch myself into being Ostracized in both of those groups because change cannot happen from outside, it must be from within as well. But let me tell Kentucky what a real hospital is. The one I work at. (And those of you who might disagree with me, don't reverse image search this, its a Getty Image).

During COVID, my state used State Reserves and Federal Funding to buy out hotels of their rooms and keep them in business. They housed the infirm, homeless, and the elderly who were to at risk to go to a hospital during a Pandemic. They were fed, housed, kept warm, and treated. And then the Pandemic ended (twice) two years later. What did we do with those people? Some are on the street, and those are the ones with issues, or those extreme minority that oddly enough, refused to give up their guns to stay in shelters and the like. But what happened to the rest? The hospital and the state mandated treatment for them. Physical and Mental health until they were able to go out on their own or be handed off to groups to home and transition them back into this (fucked up) society. And those who couldn't? They were given end of life care so they could die with a MONITCOM of humanity that they deserved, when the time came. They weren't shoved out of a chair off property, or bused up the eastern seaboard for political points.

We 'cant' afford socialized healthcare in this country, but that hospital can afford $6,000,000 in restitution, which is probably about TEN TIMES the cost to just TREAT. THE PATIENT.