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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this article shocking. This is what I’d be worried about, and taking steps to prevent, if I was the OP.

https://wapo.st/3MsheUE
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Chilling. While this is not a new story, glad that WaPo is reporting on it and will continue to do so.[/quote]

Here's the problem:

"Hulse, like most patients over 65, was covered by Medicare. It pays the hospital by diagnosis, not length of stay, an attempt to stop excessive billing. Generally it pays a hospital $23,000 for an elderly stroke patient in Orlando, a sum that assumes a five-day stay. After that, a hospital starts losing money. A new patient in the same bed would bring in thousands of dollars a day."

Hospitals have every incentive to boot a Medicare patient out the door as soon as possible. If you don't have someone fighting to keep you in the hospital if necessary they WILL try to get you out of there.  If they need to get a guardian declared to make that happen, that's what's going to happen.[/quote]

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