Obama says nations must stop genocide

The only way to stop the genocide in Darfur is to mount an invasion. Anything short of it will not work. Sad but true.

If Obama wants to stop genocide he can start right here in the United States. Every single year over 55,000 people are killed in nursing homes because the Bush Administration opened the door to let UNLICENSED people pass the medications!

These people have NO medical training. The 'laws' vary. California demands a tough 9 month course to get a license to pass meds. Ohio? A 10 day/70 hr 'course' that's a joke a 6th grader could pass. They get 4 hours to learn anatomy & physiology. Oh, and 4 more hours on 'What To Do When You Make a Mistake'. They have no license to lose and what's more, they don't care. If they screw up all they do is go back to cleaning and dressing people. Or maybe washing the toilets. No loss to them. No risk. [A nurse might very well lose her license, so they are VERY careful to do it right!]

These 'medication aides' are told how to crush, pour and stuff meds in every orifice of the body. They're supposed to listen to hearts and lungs and decide if the person should get their drugs. I can tell you from 28 years on the job that passing medications remains THE most dangerous part of my job. You can't be given 10 lousy days to learn pharmacology and not be a lethal weapon.

Here's the fun part: no nurse needs to even be in the building while aides pass dangerous drugs. When reactions or problems occur there is NO ONE to help. Worse, the med pass is when nurses assess their residents and make note of physical problems. When homes use unlicensed personnel victims may go months without seeing a nurse. [Maybe they need to change the name to 'no-nursing home'.] Health conditions deteriorate rapidly when there is no licensed personnel to monitor the residents. [Who are paying up to 8 grand a month for this 'care'].

The homes try to claim there aren't enough nurses - but that's a LIE. They just want to pay housekeepers and health aides (2 wks training) 11 bucks instead of real nurses at 19.00. Profits mean everything. So the old folks die. Who cares? There's plenty more to fill the beds.

55,000 dead. More victims of homicide every year than were killed in all of the Vietnam War. Since 2005 the numbers have been slowly climbing as more and more states start submitting to the financial pressure of the nursing home lobbyists. 2008 may have broken the 1 million mark for medication mistakes with harm and 62,000 dead. [These numbers are based on the REPORTED mistakes...only a very few elderly are autopsied when they die.]

If you're in an accident and need rehab, if your mom, dad, grandmother etc needs to go into an assisted living or nursing home facility the FIRST question you need to ask is 'Who's passing your medications" If they don't say 'licensed nurses' RUN. If they say they're using nurses get it in writing.

Oh, and watch for hidden clauses that take away your right to sue for damages. 75% of the homes are sneaking these in. Look closely at the documents they hand you and DO NOT SIGN those clauses. Line them out. This is how the homes avoid getting sued when a resident gets 2 or 3 thousand times their proper dose or gets the wrong med, or has a horrible reaction and the aide hasn't a clue and just walks away.

Maybe Obama - once he stops globe trotting - will eventually look at the 800,000 med errors with harm and 55,000+ deaths every year here and do something to fix it.

Until then, the pencil pushers have found a way to thin the ranks of the costly elderly. And it's as legal as church on Sunday.

I want to agree, but these regions and their genocides never end. the best that the US can do is take over the government, install a dictator then ignore him while he goes mad with power. we've tried it before.