>>I predict the day will come when there will be a bonus for allowing patients to die and/or encouraging them to agree to be euthanized.
That day is already here in the Netherlands, and is almost here in the UK. Except the euthanasia will happen at home. The refusal of care will be positioned as “transition to palliative care”.
NHS feels the strain as hospital bed-blocking by elderly patients hits record levels
Jane Merrick
Sunday 22 March 2015
Bed-blocking is causing a huge strain on the NHS, with more than one million hospital bed days lost because of delayed discharges in the past year, new figures revealed last night.
The number of days health managers are forced to keep patients in hospital because they cannot be transferred into the community has risen by nearly 20 per cent in a year and is now at a record level, at a cost to the NHS of £287m.
Labour blamed the delays and bed-blocking on cuts to social care budgets, which have been reduced by £3.5bn since 2010. They argued it was a false economy to cut social care because it meant more elderly people were being admitted to hospital instead of being cared for at home. In turn, the same group of patients were being transferred back home less quickly because of reductions in social care services....
Prolly already here, FRiend :(
It’s likely built in to 0KenyanCare....buried deep, being ushered in on one of the Medicare reg pages. #DeathPanels