Patient Dumping: The dark side of health care in America
‘Patient dumping’ at Baltimore hospital?
Patient dumping has been going on in the US health care system for well over a decade. The most vulnerable are the homeless as they dont have any insurance but they are by no means the only group. Over 11% of the 300 + million inhabitants don’t have health cover.
Hospitals with a profit incentive are then tempted to dump them at bus stops or by the side of the road or put them in a taxi and send them to another hospital for them to deal with.
Cut throat tactics to keep the shareholders satisfied.
Check this out and investigate for yourselves.