Profits over patients: For-profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets. (The Conversation)
In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy. (Inside Climate News)
Over 1 in 5 Americans are counting on friends and family to support them financially when they retire, survey says. Here’s why that’s a problem. (Moneywise)
United Airlines CEO tells customers string of incidents 'have sharpened our focus' (USA Today)
So, Mom and Dad, as in OUR Mom and Dad, Aunts, and Uncles, are growing old, old and ill, old and ill enough that sometimes caring for them becomes difficult. We love them, as we should, and oftentimes must rely on others to maintain some quality in their lives. We sadly become conned, especially when our emotions have receded into frustration, that Nursing Homes may help us. We forget that those who own and operate such facilities prefer profits over people.
Science fiction novels and films have explained to us, more often than not, that death and dying are just for the poor. The authors and writers warn us that having money makes those wealthy folks think that they are or will be immune from the rest of the peons and peasants. Poor people and middle-class people somehow must pay for the consequences of the wealthy!
Growing old, yep, it is; it is what we want and wish for, but there is the fine print we don’t read about. If you grow old, you MUST grow old with finances plenty. Once again it com, it comes down to profits and having lots of money to actually work and thrive.
NOW, after even one too many incidents where murder and mayhem might have ended a few lives, the United CEO pretends to suddenly become aware of safety issues. Imagine if the United CEO actually gave a real shit, and used the invented luggage fees, or the preferred seating fees, or the seat first fees, to actually pay for better maintenance on his airlines. Imagine if the profits from those so-called services went into the maintenance of his airlines rather than his salary and the stockholder's pockets!
