|
In 1968 Antony Armstrong-Jones published a documentary "Don't Count
The Candles"
regarding
the tragedy of senior confinement. An 80 year old man was taken against his
will to a nursing home.
One scene showed him wistfully looking out the window as his relative left, one silent tear
sliding down his cheek.
NPR's Ina Jaffe reported in 2020 that many nursing and assisted living institutions are running on a shoestring, with understaffing while money is siphoned to owners'
pockets, owners who ask
Medicaid and Medicare for more money.
1. Excessive Profiteering B H Gray writes that 75% of these facilities are now for-profit ones. 2. Shoestring understaffing causes neglect and sometimes premature death. 3. The lack of ethical supervision from federal agencies, owners, and managers generates abuse from yelling at residents to physical assaults, chemical and physical restraints. 4a. Substandard food is a complaint across the US. Some facilities are spending as little as $6.00 a day per person, less than prisons. At one national chain, wilted lettuce salads, an occasional banana, say residents, are the some total of the 'fresh food'. 4b. In many assisted living and nursing homes as well as hospitals and prisons, kosher, halal, vegetarian and vegan food is difficult to obtain. 5. Noise .. talking and laughing loudly during midnight shift Loud sounds interfere with the sleep and health of residents. 6. Constant interruptions which wake up residents who don't want breakfast or are napping or on the phone etc. 7. Incarceration Living behind locked doors without the freedom to leave is imprisonment 8. Lack of privacy, including conjugal rights 9. Theft 10. Denial of the right to refuse medication or vaccines. In the last 4 years, NPR The FDA requires a label on antipsychotics (which should be called propsychotics) warning of possible homicides or suicides. Many of these medications cause a permanent shaking, the medical term abbreviated to 'tardiff'. 11. The right to refuse breakfast because residents have never eaten breakfast or because they want to sleep is not honored. 12. Abuse of Durable Power of Attorney 13. Premature Deaths: Poor air filtration systems, food poisoning, constant noise and interruptions, nurse and caregiver understaffing, abuse, isolation, and confinement depression are some factors of high death rates in assisted living and nursing home facilities. 14 Conflict of interest: Some facilities are owned by physicians who have a profit motive in filling empty rooms, turning their temporary patients into 15. There are virtually no black residents in these expensive jails, despite the fact that many 16 Isolation, says the AARP, is a factor in premature deaths among residents in these facilities.. 17 One doctor, a major investor in a new very expensive assisted living place, could not fill the empty rooms because of the cost. A wealthy older patient tried to change physicians. He obtained a medical power of attorney, had him institutionalized. When he worked to get an attorney, the doctor took away sent to him, and cancelled all visitors. Whenever the resident objected to staff, he was given an antidepressant against his will. After 9 months, tardiff dyskinesia was apparent, a constant shaking. The prison had turned into a Bastille. 18. Some health authorities question the prioritization of these facilities for resident vaccines, since these are often the most immune challenged or those with the most preexisting conditions, and therefore those most likely to have lethal side effects. 19. Well meaning relatives, relatives who want to protect the assets of a parent or other relatives, can kill the Spirit of another. Nursing homes and assisted living places have very high rates of death. 20. Unfortunately many of these places treat residents like cattle, forcing them to go to be weighed, to go to bingo or worship services or singalongs, ordering them back to their rooms if they are visiting others, etc. So many lose the desire to live, while existing in these places, that the buildings become slaughterhouses. Profiteering and neglect just-6-08-per-person-a-day-thats-lower-than-prison-120421 https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-strikes-down-trump-administration-rule-allowing-refusals-health-care
|
profiteering
Profiteering, Abuse, Neglect At US Nursing & Assisted Living Facilities
Reasons Californians Should Vote Out Feinstein
*
Reasons Californians Should Vote Out Feinstein
SNS
In November, some reasons to vote for Kevin DeLeon to be the next senator from California
Feinstein is a war profiteer, a war promoter, an animal abuser who helped pass AETA. She has helped funnel over a billion $ in govt. contracts to her 3rd husband Richard Blum
A. ILLEGAL WARS
Dianne Feinstein has supported the illegal immoral violence of virtually every one of the 17 armed invasions and bombings
of other countries.
B. ANIMALS
1 Dianne Feinstein's record re animals contains secret areas. She was a cosponsor of AETA
2 Her husband Richard Blum has for many years been a regent of the University of California. For
several years he was chairman of the board of the regents. He also furthered animal torturing research
at many Univ of California schools.
3 Blum is on the board of the vivisecting American Cancer Society.
4 At Sutro Blum led a partnership that acquired Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $8 million In four years he sold it making a 500% profit on the backs of suffering beaten elephants and other circus animals.
5. All the heinous illegal wars for whose appropriations she has voted have killed trillions
of animals killed by bombs, tanks, abandonment, being seized and eaten etc.
6. The vaccinations she works to make compulsory are not vegetarian or vegan and are have lethal side effects. They are a major source of revenue for multinational drug companies.
C. SALE OF NAVAL PROPERTY ON CALIFORNIA COASt to CHINESE
Feinstein was instrumental in the sale of San Diego naval land to a Chinese company.
D. ASSAULT WEAPONS DOUBLE STANDARD
Feinstein is opposed in the US to assault weapons but has voted to send $ to the Netanyahu regime for purchase of weapons
including assault weapons.
Dianne Feinstein opposes assault weapons in the US, but facilitated getting them to Israelis Over 2/3 of California Democratic convention delegates oppose her
https://www.alipac.us/f19/insider-trader-war-profiteer-chinese-company-i/
E. WAR PROFITEERING
Feinstein is said to have violated the law in funneling government contracts to her husband's companies.
The US government awarded to a company (Perini) controlled by Blum. URS Corp, in which Blum had a substantial stake, bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002; EG&G subsequently won a $600 million defense contract.
In 2009 it was reported that Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a government agency that had recently awarded her husband's real estate firm, CB Richard Ellis, what the Washington Times called "a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms."
F. AGE
Feinstein will be 85 this summer. She is rarely filmed getting in and out of her committee chair.. but it is a slow process.
G. NOT ENDORSED BY HER PARTY
At the Democratic convention earlier in the year, Feinstein got less than 1/3 of the delegates' support.
H. MAIN OPPONENT
Feinstein's main opponent is the popular and principled Kevin de Leon https://www.kevindeleon.com
I CENSORSHIP
'Richard Blum, a billionaire war profiteer, is also a regent at the University of California, where he pushed for harsh measures against students exercising free speech. During debate over the adoption of new censorship measures against intolerance, Blum cited long conversations with Feinstein and their mutual belief that students criticizing Israel “ought to have a dismissal or a suspension from school.” ' His wife has labeled criticism of Israel antiSemitism, which is akin to labeling Trump critics antiAmerican.
J VACCiNES
Feinstein has aggressively worked for compulsory vaccination of nonvegetarian nonvegan toxic vaccines containing mercury etc.
K. HISTORY
Feinstein's political career was accelerated when San Francisco Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk were murdered. She became SF mayor then. Richard Blum is her third husband.
This article was prepared by a populist activist, a former California resident, with no connection to any California campaign.
California Democratic Party declined to endorse Feinstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/us/feinstein-de-leon-democrats.html
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/21/18700614.php
https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/03/26/feinsteins-husband-steps-out-of-h/
http://www.webcitation.org/5nuLszglw
https://www.alipac.us/f19/insider-trader-war-profiteer-chinese-company-i/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/17/isra-m17.html article by
By David Moore—SEP candidate for Senate in California