Last Week Tonight - Long-Term Care

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If you've recently heard about all the fuckery happening in long-term care facilities during COVID, John Oliver discusses how that fuckery has been happening for a long time and what can be done about it.

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OP Note: from a disability advocate perspective, this has been an longstanding issue in this community and I'm glad it's getting

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It's one of those things, I try real hard not to think about it, because I can't. Even though it's been more than a few years now. But when I do, or something like this sparks it, it's just instant anger all over again. I'm right back in that hallway outside her door. I will never get over that, and that she used the words, "We see that your mother is dying, but your mother isn't dying fast enough." i kinda hope she got hit by a bus. Even if it's her job, find better ways of wording shit.

I'm not alone in getting that call. Most people don't realize the lifetime days is a thing, or how that even factors in under hospice benefits which has/had idk if it's changed, a loophole, that only lasted X number of days. I never did that side of things dealing with medicare, and i got out 2 years ago cause i needed a break. my second mom was dying of emphysema so, i was done with all things death for a bit. Health meant I had to quit the law firm around that time & then of course the covid happened so I didn't go back to hospice after what was supposed to be a break. I don't think I want to go back tbh. Tired of the death, and physically I don't think I can either. But I have no idea what has changed yet again, cause it seemed like care coverage shrunk every year.

We only had 34 days from oh shit this is it, until the end, so it's not even like it was huge amount of time for them to worry about. But hey someone found it deeply amusing! so, never change internet.

I will say the hospice told me not to worry about it and to stiff the facility whose bed we were using, but I was just all done. Said, I'm taking her home.

She was there for my first breath. It was the greatest honor of my life to be there for her last, describing the sunrise to her.

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