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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.

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