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Commodity Care or People Care in America’s Nursing Homes?
If you get a second, read the large article that was in this Sunday’s New York Times, about the surge in private equity firms taking over nursing homes.
Beneath the text is an underlying question for America: Should older Americans be cared for as commodities or as people?
Interested to hear your thoughts on this article and what it says about the state of long-term care in America.
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September 24th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
The question was rhetorical. Of course people should be cared for as people.
But until we stop treating large corporations as if they have less culpability than individuals, we won’t be able to accomplish that.
Will we?