Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, November 16, 2006
County Line
In the mental health field, we used to call the way the county provided treatment as "county line therapy" (you drop indigents off at the next county line for treatment):
The Los Angeles Times also leads locally with news that hospital giant Kaiser Permanente was charged with dropping off homeless patients on skid row. Kaiser is the first, but there are currently 10 hospitals under investigation for the practice.