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[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

They couldn't care for themselves before the surgery. They had the surgery due to personal neglect. If they can't care for themselves after either, it seems like we should just eliminate the middleman and leave them to rot. This is such a perfect example of the free market trying to do the right thing and being thwarted by socialism. Eighteen private health facilities rejected him, EIGHTEEN, but the socialised hospital was forced to keep him stored on a taxpayer-funded bed for months. He will pay for none of it. He should have, firstly, been denied surgery in the first place by a private hospital or been unable to afford it, and secondly, been discharged to his damn home and left to fend for himself, not kept cozy taking space from people in need. Nature has been trying to kill this man for years and we keep intervening, hilariously, at the expense of people who deserve to live and aren't burdens.

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[–] ridsloth 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

With nowhere else to go, patients must wait in the hospital while expensive and time-consuming renovations and modifications can be completed on their own homes before they can be discharged.

In the time it takes for these expensive renovations, the fatasses could eat a calorie restricted diet in the hospital and become human-sized. But I guess that wouldn't be burdensome enough for society at large to really be worth it.

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[–] derram ago 

https://archive.ph/92fJu :

2019-07-08 | Four extremely obese patients are stranded in hospital because there is no facility to care for them | Daily Mail Online

'The management of high-needs obese patients has sparked calls for community care centers to catch up with the hospital and provide for the complicated needs of local patients. '

'Four extremely obese patients have been stuck in one hospital for months after their initial treatment is complete because there are no other facilities capable of looking after them. '

'Middlemore has a particularly large population of obese people, which has turned into the main facility for treatment of larger patients. ', "And the costly expenses are standing in the way of these patients exiting Middlemore, as many private institutions simply don't have the means to care for morbidly obese patients with additional medical needs.", "One patient was stranded in Auckland's Middlemore Hospital for more than eight months, because no other centre could accommodate his size and complicated medical conditions."


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