In general all " health systems " tacitly sit down with very evil " insurance companies " to rake in billions.
It is all about milking the " Health Maintenance System " - using convoluted and very dubious algorithms - to target the most vulnerable and charge the maximum - hospital stay, operations, medications.
All those elements we care for but that are abused by those that purport to help us - but continue with intent - to let us down. So help us God!
Devious methods of collecting money for inferior services rendered - that cause " deep fissures " - the more you look into the matter - the deeper one swims in the " cesspool of corruption" - empathy, compassion, healing - all those good values - thrown to the wind.
More - that compromise the " Hippocratic Oath " - taken by those that must uphold " stellar and astute health services " - in reality pander to the failing health system we have in the United States of America - saturated with corruption.
Doctors connected with doling out prescriptions - to those that fain pain - and are prescribed Opioids - so called pain killers - that mostly these patients are addicted to - more pain killers prescribed- that leads to the premature death of thousands every month - all over the Nation.
On another level when it comes to deliver and paying for some standard " health care " those that take care of their health - are targeted - and disrespected - forced to fork out thousands for inferior and compromised - health services.
The higher premiums under " American Health Act " better known as " Obama Care " - penalizes those that are healthy - as I said - and puts too much burden on those that must pay higher premiums - each and every year.
Barrack Obama made fake promises - you could choose your doctor - that never happened. Your premiums would not go up - it has skyrocketed. Your health services would improve - seeing is believing.
Here is one article that sheds some light - be it that each day we live in our Society - the " insurance companies " are ahead of the game - using nefarious tactics - to milk those that need help most :
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/07/555957419/steep-premiums-challenge-people-who-buy-health-insurance-without-subsidies
Here is San Francisco our health services are being compromised.
One of the main entities that has its sticky finger - in all important matters - linked to health matters of importance - are Sutter Hospitals.
Again and again when it comes to Saint Luke's Hospital ( now under the jurisdiction of Sutter Hospital - aka California Pacific Medical Center ), Sutter Hospital in Marin County, in other places in the Bay Area - too many to name - again and again - we see the fleecing of the patients - Register Nurses and other health givers - all treated with disdain.
At Sutter Hospitals sub-astute patients are targeted and bed reduced to a minimum.
So are services linked to pre-mature babies and related issues. So are services that existed and are no more - linked to respiratory diseases and other chronic diseases such as - heart attacks and more.
The San Francisco General Hospital - has been decertified so many times - again and again - for failing to maintain - standards - more in the last 15 years.
The Commission linked to the SF Health Department and the SF General Hospital is a farce - the key players - Smithsonian - they talk the talk but fail to walk the walk.
Again and again very serious factors prop up - charging patients more than they are suppose to be charged.
Over working the nurses more Registered Nurses - other Medical Technicians - and if one registers a complaint - they are targeted and this is plain wrong. Where is the compassion?
Barbara Garcia -
is was fired - an action that shocked many -
there is more to come.
Recently Barbara Garcia who was the Director of the SF Public Health - was fired.
Apparently even after making over $275,000 with benefits - Barbara Garcia still had time - to connive, hoodwink, cheat and help her wife - get contracts illegally - to make more money. Greed.
Barbara Garcia was well known to me - for many years - and in my work.
I had access to her more to find out focused information more linked to empirical data - statistics linked to our infants, children, youth, young adults, Seniors, those with compromised health - as the Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy and my work on the Frontlines and in the trenches - over 35 years.
However in view of other situations in which I am involved - I know for a fact - corruption at all levels - exists in practically every SF City Department - more with the Mayor Office in San Francisco.
For sure when Mayor Edwin Mah Lee was in charge and worked in Room 200 at City Hall - and now Mayor London Breed - a novice who is hell bent to make as much money as she can.
London Breed will fall flat on her face - obese and round as she is - will simply roll over - and fade into oblivion.
The many deep fissures within the SF Health System and more SF General Hospital.
The recent revelations - linked to charging patients more - at the SF General Hospital is something so despicable - that is cast a very " dark cloud " - on upper management.
More on that institution - that defied standards and continues to wallow in the " cesspool of its own creation " - SF General Hospital needs a clean slate - and time is running out.
Check this out - patients must wait in line - to be transferred for less paying care - to other hospitals - forcing SF General Hospital to transfer patients - more off load patients - compromising standards - where is the EQUITY :
https://sfbos.org/section-14
Our SF Board of Supervisors and our SF Mayor London Breed are busy pussyfooting around - none of them do their home work - the talk the talk and fail to walk the walk.
In the past advocates from the Bayview Hunters Point - helped build the more stable buildings - before newer hospital building were built - the City and County of San Francisco and the present City Administrator and SF Board of Supervisors - have no clue about this history.
It has become customary to use the advocates and throw them like some dirty rags into some sordid dustbin - fail to acknowledge them.
Actions that have come to haunt the City and County of San Francisco - the City Administrator, the SF Board of Supervisors - and more Mayor London Breed.
On our streets homelessness is so chronic that it has made Nation Headlines - our streets stinks to high heaven - and the mess left in many parts of our Financial District - is despicable.
We now see addicts on Geary Avenue - opposite the St. Mary Cathedral - in the open for all to see - how our unique addicts - shoot in the open for all the world to see.
It took me a month to clean up the street opposite the Main Library - the businesses were crying for help - and no one cared - thanks to my connections within the Department of Public Works - I personally pursued my quests to help the businesses and saw how inept the system was.
Young children would see the junkies shoot in the open - and no one cared. The children when they see just horrible scenes - are horrified - I saw the expression on their faces - and decided to fix the problem.
The addiction to Opioids in San Francisco - is increasing - and the issues is complicated - more with Mainland China - flooding the market - most of the Opioids brought in at the many Entry Points - which lack personnel and technology which the U.S. Government - has failed to appropriate.
The Opioid epidemic - compounded with mental challenged who are not treated in San Francisco, the thousands living in horrible conditions - in one of the world's richest city - San Francisco - the land of the Ohlone - that was stolen - no one seems to care- but not for long.
Missing in the above equation - the many demeaning and dehumanizing facets revealed on the streets of San Francisco.
The lack of sound leadership - that is non-existent in San Francisco - more in Room 200 - where our present Mayor - London Breed - smiles and talks from both sides of her dirty mouth.
London Breed is busy pussy footing around - her advisors one worse than the other.
The SF General Hospital is just one factor - just one big open sore - just one gigantic blunder - screaming for attention - no one is paying - attention.
Anyway one looks at this situation - the failing SF General Hospital - be it an important one that points to the systemic failures - each and every year.
Compounded - on so many levels - that an emergency must be declared - the mess cleared and addressed on a war footing.
The many hurdles, impediments, corrupt policies - addressed
in this article.
Joseph Taeotui - extreme left -
we love you - stand by the values
you adhered to - you left a legacy.
This article is dedicated to my good friend Joseph Taeotui better known at Jungle. We love you - you stood tall and represented - we spoke and discussed the issues at hand -
many of them discussed in the article above.
Francisco Da Costa
San Francisco
January 27, 2019
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