MN. Senior Legal Issues And Sad State Of Our Health Care

[SharonAnn]

1. Sounds like your questions/problems are with federal Medicare rules.

At least the issues about placement and cost.

I think all facilities are short on staff because they're minimizing cost (and maximizing profit). Is the Rehab/Nursing facility a "for profit" enterprise?

Medicare pays for procedures, so doctors and staff are reluctant to spend time anything but "procedures". For example, the surgeon will operate and you do follow-up office visits at his/her office, but you won't get a lot of time "discussing" things. Maybe one time, but not much after that. That's because they can't afford to spend time doing that, they get paid for performing surgery.

There's a lot that needs to be done, but most of it involves money: who gets it, who pays it, what is required to get it. There's not much done about how to provide "better" health care. There is a lot done about how to reduce costs or increase profits.