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caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29998460/

There must be a better way of dealing with people like this than just continuing to allow them to abuse the system at a $1,000 bucks a wack. They obviously have mental issues, but this crap has gotta stop.

Answer? I dunno. What would you suggest?

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Bill as a % of wages?

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Ok.

Forced institutionalization for individuals not able to care for themselves. De-institutionalization has not been a benefit to society, the mentally ill and makes my walk to work annoying.

Of any 1000 births, there will be a handful that are just too messed up. They're outside the normal distribution of human abilities. Institutionalize them, but be really humane about it. Junkies too, till they're clean for a few months.

http://www.psychlaws.org/generalresources/Article2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

If someone is clinically diagnosed with Hypochondriasis, isn't (s)he really ill?

blade · Joined: 30 Jun 2007

I could be wrong but it seems to me that not every patient will cost the tax payer $1,000 dollars. Some will cost a lot more and some will cost a great deal less.

It also seems to me that many of these patients may well have been sent straight home and received very little in the way of actual medical care.

RJjr · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Turning on a Lamp

In my hometown, there some who go to the ER over and over again making up bullshit health problems to get their pain pill fix. I don't know if it's a nationwide phenomenon or if those types of people have gravitated to Tennessee because of TennCare, which was started in '94.