Bariatric Badness

[ProEra]

A very damning piece and terrible practice all around it seems.

A Famed Hospital Churns Poor Patients Through Weight-Loss Surgery

New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients.

www.nytimes.com

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[thinkorswim]

This article really highlights just how broken our medical system is currently.

Bellevue is the OG community/county hospital serving the impoverished and uninsured. To not only delay care for these patients but also turn around and prey on that same population to squeeze every last penny of profit is just reprehensible.

 

[Simba1711]

This will only get worse for the impoverished and uninsured population when Beth isreal closes next year. The next closest hospital is Bellevue.

 

[GassYous]

This will only get worse for the impoverished and uninsured population when Beth isreal closes next year. The next closest hospital is Bellevue.

Beth israel has been functionally closed for years. It's been limping along as basically a glorified bunch of clinics