L.A. files patient `dumping' charges

The charges stem from an incident earlier this year when a 63-year-old patient from Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower hospital was videotaped as she left a taxi in gown and socks, and then wandered skid row streets. LATimes.com
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The world's only remaining superpower continues to ignore its crumbling health care infrastructure. We can and we must do better in providing adequate health care for all Americans. That could have been your mother left at the curb wearing nothing but a hospital gown with her exposed bum competing for the streets' attention.