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Reply to comment by jabbadarth in Dollar stores were the fastest-growing food retailers by household expenditure share between 2008 to 2020 according to Tufts University. While they still represent a small fraction of national household food purchases, they play an increasingly prominent role for disadvantaged and rural communities. by shiruken
Is it understaffing if they're thriving?
If they're understaffed, wouldn't they be failing?
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Reply to comment by folstar in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Where is dying outlawed?
We all die. It's basically the only 100% indisputable fact observed in nature
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Reply to comment by hear4theDough in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Hospital wants you out as soon as possible 99% of the time
You don't get bonus $$$ for keeping a patient. Exact opposite in fact, you get seriously penalized by Medicare
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Reply to comment by uhuhshesaid in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
>and underfunded as a resource.
It's not really underfunded at all in USA but it is underutilized
If anything, I think it's going to get a nasty crackdown on reimbursement because as is, hospice care reimburses probably a lot more than the labor or medications can reasonably justify. It's using 150-year-old medications that cost pennies, administered by an RN
That's my prediction, but CMS is notoriously well-known to do the exact opposite of what needs to happen
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Reply to comment by TheKhaziOfKalibar in Dollar stores were the fastest-growing food retailers by household expenditure share between 2008 to 2020 according to Tufts University. While they still represent a small fraction of national household food purchases, they play an increasingly prominent role for disadvantaged and rural communities. by shiruken
It's $0.49 for a can of soup here in Illinois
Try Aldi