Over the past few years a number of hospitals, for example in Chicago and Florida, have deported expensive patients without insurance. They took illegal immigrant patients, put them on a plane, and flew them back to their home country. Now, Hawaii is considering putting its homeless on flights back to the continental U.S. With Medicaid costs devouring gigantic portions of global state budgets, will more and more states start bribing the expensive patients to move?
On this blog, Professor Thaddeus Pope tracks judicial, legislative, policy, and academic developments concerning medical futility and the limits on individual autonomy at the end of life.
Monday, August 2, 2010
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老天爺賦予了強者的能力,就是要他比弱者多擔待..................................................
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