She broke the foot several days ago and was transported to the hospital. They wanted to get her into surgery but delayed because of possible incoming covid cases and sent her home.
Two days later she's been sitting in the same chair at home because she can't walk, and her hygiene is uncared for. An ambulance was called again today but when they arrived the medics told them that the hospital wasn't admitting anything but 'emergency' patients, and apparently a 92 year old woman with a broken foot stewing in her own juice in a living room chair isn't an emergency.
This is a motherfucking crime, and neither the government nor the health care system gives one shit about it. I'm boiling with hatred for every one of these thugs.
I think if you shut down the world for 18 months because you need time to prepare for a virus you don't get to use "we were caught off guard!" as an excuse anymore, even if it mutates.
And I do think hospitals have a financial incentive to reimburse things as WuFlu, yes. CPT codes and reimbursement rule the healthcare industry; I have firsthand knowledge of this.
I have mentioned before that I used to work someplace where one of their products effectively did nothing but allow a hospital to bill an extra CPT code per visit. The product was supposed to be a diagnostic aid but wasn't accurate enough to be useful on its own, so the doctor would manipulate the inputs so the tool would give them a pre-determined outcome, but since they used the tool they could bill the extra code.
And my employer wasn't doing something unique in the industry.