Laboratories of Extraction w/ Karen Tani (12/15/22)
Death Panel
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Deinstitutionalization
Prior to Medicare and Medicaid being passed in the 60s, a lot of this was paid for by the states. They would be paying for the hospitals and paying for these warehousing architectures. And so what you saw is this huge shift in the duration of how long people were actually put into facilities. In 1974, it cost the average state hospital or asylum in New York State about $13,800 a year. This could save the state on average between $9,000 and $11,000 per patient reducing that overhead of $13,000, $14,000 per person down to maybe about $2,600 to $3,000 depending.
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