City of Los Angeles makes it illegal for hospitals to dump their garbage

Los Angeles Bars Hospitals from Dumping Homeless Patients

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/04/los-angeles-bars-hospitals-from-dumping-homeless-patients/

In Los Angeles, a new city ordinance makes it a misdemeanor for health facilities to transport a patient to a place other than his or her residence without written consent, the WSJ reports.

WTF? Since these bums have no residences, then the hospitals should be able to dump their asses anywhere, preferably in an incinerator, woodchipper, or the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

But hospitals are worried the new ordinance may put an undue burden on them. While several have admitted failings and are revising procedures for discharge planning, they also say many patients refuse to leave.

In hospitals, patients have a “nice, warm bed, three meals a day and maybe even a television and people waiting on them. They are literally saying to us, ‘I don’t want to go. If you discharge me, I will call the L.A. Times,’” said Carol Meyer, director of governmental relations for the Los Angeles County’s Department of Health Services.

These hospitals are businesses and shouldn't have to provide free services to people that are unwilling to pay or work. Restaurants aren't forced to give out free food to bums, clothing stores aren't forced to give out free clothes to bums, hotels don't provide free stays to bums, etc. Hospitals shouldn't be any different, unless it's providing free euthanasia or physician assisted suicide to bums.

What these hospitals should do is harvest the organs from these homeless people. Their livers may be near cirrhosis levels from years of alcohol abuse, but some organs might still be worth something. What's left of them can be used to make Soylent Green.

Soylent Green is people!