1 in 4 Nursing Home Employees Has No Health Insurance, and Other Links
One in four nursing home employees and one in three home health care workers has no health insurance. Reason: Medicare and Medicaid pay too little.
Is there a cruelty gene? Maybe. “In most cruel people…the ’empathy circuit,’ which runs through 10 different regions of the brain, goes down either temporarily or permanently, leaving the person with ‘zero empathy.'”
Great article on Dr. Bob [pictured below, center]. He often comments at this blog.
Photo credit: Lara Solt/Dallas Morning News
I liked the article about Dr. Bob.
Congratulations Dr. Bob. This is a great article illustrating the high level of care you provide your patients!
Re – the cruelty gene. Seems to me, this lack of empathy is the definition of a sociopath.
The first item should be a just-can’t-make-this-up post.
Glad to see Dr. Bob get some recognition.
I think there probably is a cruely gene.
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I always enjoy Dr Bob’s comments at this site.
The nursing home story gets worse. Turns out, they want a waiver form the Obama Care health insurance mandate. This is from the article:
The new health care law is supposed to fix the problem by guaranteeing access to affordable coverage for all. But many nursing homes and home care agencies, alarmed at the cost of providing health insurance to hundreds of thousands of health care workers, have started a lobbying effort seeking some kind of exemption or special treatment.
Amazing, the health care system itself cannot abide by the mandate.
There are some really sad things that happen at nursing homes. This is just another difficult aspect of aging: no one wants to pay enough. I don’t see a good resolution to this situation.