FlyingTexan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1924 times:
Following is a link to an article in the April 9, 2005 edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It states that one million dollars was spent on one homeless person during a six month time span.
TedTAce From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1914 times:
There has to be a better way to deal with homless people then this. Why didn't someone say, let's stop @$500K (if not sooner), and just buy this guy a place to stay, food to eat, and a few years worth of health insurance, including if necessary, mental care? I garantee something like that could have been done for $250K if not less...Oh wait $250K is still too much for some people here, they'd rather make our kids pay the $1million, with interest.
FlyingTexan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1903 times:
I should have mentioned in the original post the RJ article states the $1 Million went toward medical bills, incarceration, detox, and ambulance rides.
TheCoz From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1885 times:
Considering the ridiculous cost of healthcare, I'm not surprised this cost 1 million dollars.
What did they do, give the guy a couple of asprin after an ambulance ride to a detox center?
The truely outrageous aspect of this is how little it takes to rack up 1 million in bills through health care. What is less significant to me is the fact that they spent 1 million dollars to try and fix up a homeless person -- like this person is less worthy of help than someone else, just because they're homeless.
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