Pain and Profit: A Dallas Morning News Investigation

[jayschool2013]

From the reporter, David McSwane on his Facebook page:

"We spent a year investigating Texas’ privatized system for delivering healthcare to vulnerable Texas. We found insurance companies are boosting their profits by denying heath care to our most vulnerable — foster children, the elderly and the severely disabled — and the state government knows it."

Read the first two parts of his five-part series here.

[BadGimp]

1. Internalize the Profits, Externalize the PAIN! That's the GOP macro level game plan.

[jayschool2013]

2. More teasers from the splash page

The preventable tragedy of D’ashon Morris
Doctors described him as “happy and playful” and told his foster mother he would be healthy by the time he went to kindergarten. That was before a giant health care company made a decision that saved it as much as $500 a day — and cost D’ashon everything.

As patients suffer, companies profit
Imagine being trapped in a bed for more than a year because you can't get the medical equipment you need. Years of poor oversight by the state have allowed health care companies to skimp on essential care for sick kids and disabled adults.

Monday: Texas pays companies billions for ‘sham networks’ of doctors
The state tells foster parents that hundreds of psychiatrists will see their kids. We found only 34. Managed-care companies overstate the number of physicians available to treat the state’s sickest patients.

Tuesday: ‘Glossover of the horror’
A whistleblower says taxpayers are not getting their money’s worth and sick people are not getting the care they need. Texas fails to act when health care companies put patients in peril.

Wednesday: Parents vs. the Austin machine
“You can tell that he’s crying or screaming, but nothing comes out.” Texas families take fight for medically fragile children to the Legislature.

[procon]

3. Texas brags about how corporate friendly they are.

It's a big incentive to lure companies from other states to move to Texas, including the for profit healthcare scammers.

[SunSeeker]

4. K & R for exposure.

[safeinOhio]

5. Keep choking the people,

until they turn Blue.

[OMGWTF]

6. Death by spreadsheet --

These greedy sociopathic mofos should be prosecuted, stripped of all assets, and imprisoned without parole.

If we had Medicare for All, none of this sh!t would be happening.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Texas has no Nurse to patient ratio laws.

One Nurse can be caring for as many patients as the hospital wants them to. This creates less demand for RNs and lower wages for them. It's not surprising medical corporations flock to such a state.

[Aristus]

8. And my fellow DU-ers can't understand why this born-and-bred Texan

and naturalized Washingtonian is never going back to that unspeakable Lone Star hellhole...

[dalton99a]

9. Kick