tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518953907062235005.post4920250072374930447..comments2024-03-23T06:25:06.247-05:00Comments on Detritus of Empire: With their boots offTacitushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17007086196578740689noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518953907062235005.post-45016784348718717472012-06-22T14:37:43.821-05:002012-06-22T14:37:43.821-05:00I just read your article. Very interesting becaus...I just read your article. Very interesting because I just went through 3 hospital stays the last month. The difference is I am the daughter and already gave up everything 20 years to care for a mother who at 52 had a major disabling stroke. Your article makes it more clear to me why nothing made sense. I can only assume the hospital care workers knew less then me about medicaid and medicare law. In the USA there are federal laws to protect the elder and in some round about way the caregivers. The states ignore then all and simply balance their budget's on the backs of the "soon to be impoverished" daughters who will eventually will be a welfare participant due to the instance gratification of balance budgets by putting off the long term cost of abusing the predominatly women caregivers both emotionally and finanically. If I could figure out a way to bring a case to the supreme courts under "equal rights" and could find an attorney I would do it in a New YOrk second. There are no equal rights for us caregivers when compared to our "brothers" who have the guilt free opportunity to contribute to their retirement accounts and succeed at their high paying jobs on the backs of their soon to be poor sisters. It is so medieval and so unfair in the USA how the men in Washington DC just use and abuse this group of caregivers who are not strong enough to fight back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com