This is how healthcare works in the US and it'll never get better until capitalism is dead.
"According to the Sheriff’s office, a 68-year-old homeless man with terminal cancer chose to get arrested to get healthcare.
"'He re-committed a crime to get put back in the facility so he could receive treatment,' Owens said."
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/cobb-sheriff-says-homeless-terminally-ill-man-arrested-purpose-healthcare-hes-not-alone/FJXPDVWXPFEMJDGTJIECAN74MY/
WSB Atlanta: Cobb Sheriff says homeless terminally ill man arrested on purpose for healthcare, he’s not alone
@IAmDannyBoling Capitalism is alive and well in Canada, but this would not happen there because they have universal health care.
@IAmDannyBoling Many many years ago in Bristol a tramp (who would these days be called "street homeless") would wander around to the police station each year when the weather got cold and break a window. To get indoors in the warm for the winter. "You again - would you like your usual four months?" would say the magistrate, according to the local paper.
@TimWardCam @IAmDannyBoling
All of the “experiments” where homeless people are literally given a home, one of the outcomes that shows up over and over is a reduction in public expenditures for emergency medical care, because, surprise, people literally are out on the streets in freezing, inclement weather.
There are obvious solutions that we aren't taking advantage of because our politicians and our media won't explain the situation (and solutions) correctly. Tim explains a typical but bad kind of solution, while curlyjoe explains one of the correct ways to handle homelessness that people in power don't want to offer. It's so crazy!