an emerging picture

One health care company was bought out by another.
The discontinuity in services is to be expected on general psychological principles, although
it is no law of nature that there must be discontinuity.

The bottom line, however, is the bottom line.

After a phone conversation with the "owner-administrator" of the new company, I've learned
that possibly my parents (father) might continue to receive the extremely generous services he received previously--two assisted showers per week and a weekly visit by anRN who uses her professional skills to determine that he is still alive.

My own viewpoint is that this is a perfect capitalistic mess. Little company-sharks are competing with one another to devour the fish tossed to them by the government program called "Medicare". The sharks are hungry. Little fishes work for the sharks. The little fishes are called Nurses and Nurses Aids. The Nurses and Nurses aids are like factory workers in an automobile factory.

Thus is the subtlety of the operative system.

We have little fish and big fish, an assembly line, and the logic of the system is governed by principles inimical to anything which could legitimately be called "care".

I would gladly leave this country merely to avoid any contact with that system, but my parents are here and they are thoroughly enmeshed in this evil system. "Health Care Reform" What a joke. When I hear those words I want to throw up.