Plight of Homelessness and Health Care

The plight of the many numbers of homeless people and pitfalls is one of the non-stop cycles in our society as well as a primary cause of misdiagnoses. Most aren't at risk of losing their lives but the pitfalls in our system would certainly make many people even more unhappy. Of course, once these despairing people who have no choice but to agree with the judgment diagnosis, some funneled into depression support groups, others regarded with such bizarre terminology equivalent to lunatic, all for being at the wrong place at the wrong time or just plain being poor. One example of a true diagnosis mishap is the abstract correlation of the cook using a culinary wine to make dinner considered similar to a true culprit getting drunk in the bar and assaulting someone. It's stereotyping to spin the health care dollar wheel.

It's about the hourly wage earner whose employer closed down, the unpretentious Joe who can't find another job and means well so he ends well. There's no argument when he loses his job, nobody concerned about the fact he can't pay for an apartment or when he does he's penned in like a caged animal. He's the guy that may have taken some college courses, some with the associates degree, but by the time the system gets done pushing him aside he's homeless. And of course there's the biased approach, that new experimental psychology of certain ethnic groups being targeted with one kind of ailment or another until accepted. It's a true mystery how when one individual slips up how many others with no like intention or dilemma end up with the same result.

Most health care facilitators are good people. In fact, the expensive well-educated doctors we go to have a higher rating of ethics than most other professions according to our national surveys. And when someone's really ill truthfully they're the miracle workers all the way down the ladder including the aides. The dark side is the approximate 90,000 patients misdiagnosed a year who result in losing their lives.

True, if somebody can't stop arguing with the neighbors and he just doesn't show up for work and goes to the bar instead, he definitely needs some kind of life line to get his life in control. And if you're a drug abuser there's real opportunity in free medical attention. But what about the unpretentious Joe that keeps getting pushed aside, homeless, ends up in a clinic if he can't find a tent and campground? After all, what use is somebody without a job, his skills irrelevant in the market surveys, obsolete and no way to train him? Then there's Jill, the single gal who get's referred to as gay or mentally incompetent if she's doesn't have a significant other. Say no to that contraband folks and here is where you're going -- you will be sitting in a circle with a condition depending on what the staff prescribed, sometimes a budget deal from what's available this year in the samples cabinets. The woman who abandoned her newborn, the man who chased his kids with an axe, the couple who locked their kids in their rooms for weeks at a time? That's where the homeless Joe or Jill is going, right into the same weird pit. And of course, for these people who didn't do anything wrong, just lost everything they owned because there's simply no place to put them, and since they don't make enough noise didn't get noticed or hired, aren't related to anybody of stature, end up homeless with the real lunatics.

What's the connection between poverty stricken people without compulsions and a true lunatic or criminal? None whatsoever. So any time the honest guy or gal takes those pills the doctor says they have to take or else they'll be out in the street, that's a misdiagnosis. As for the case of the homeless who were prescribed what's available can suffer serious body organ damage. The Food and Drug Administration has made repeated attempts to put warnings on prescription bottles of medicines that can cause severe depression. Why even give something like that to people that to begin with? It's like choosing an evil.

Once upon a time wandering people had squatters rights. I say, just as with the assistance programs for families, what about these homeless people whom didn't do anything wrong and are without compulsions, just plain poor? Then there's the case of people who are on low incomes getting sued when their health care provider wants money, these misdiagnosed are suddenly diagnosed healthy enough to pay up or sit down. In other words, medical administrations are flawless while they're suing people, the patients without say and still don't have a rent to stand in. And how do impoverished people end up with bills going through court systems for as little as $100? How did we get time for this? The federal and state grants are huge endowments to hospitals and clinics, the issue is often the money is getting funneled to people who don't require incompetence care to begin.

In most situations modern medicines are life savers and can work miracles. However, the lax prescription writing for people for unrealistic reasons has gotten to be iconoclastic. If we took that same money spent by the patient, the administrators and professionals, and used it for sliding scale living until these would-be homeless can get a grip, what a difference it would make. The way it is right now, the industrious worker that isn't getting opportunity or being refused because there's nobody to pull the strings for him is in true fear of where he or she's going to end up. One reality is the workers who aren't arguing with the boss or rebelling against authority are among the too frequently regarded as incompetent and subjected to bias.

If I was a politician or had the leverage to do a health care overhaul in the U.S., it would be for an alternate and non-judgmental plan for the homeless.