John Oliver didn’t waste any time ribbing New York City mayor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight” episode about nursing homes, calling the facilities “the absolute last thing you want Andrew Cuomo to be handling, tied comfortably with literally anything else.”
That zinger came from the very first line of the HBO host’s 20-plus-minute segment. Given the topic at hand, things got a bit more somber from there.
“The truth is, Covid just exposed what we’ve basically known for years,” Oliver said. “That the way the elderly and disabled are treated in far too many of these facilities is with, at best, indifference, and at worst, abuse and neglect.
Sadly, a nursing home resident’s level of care could very much be dependent upon who is footing the bill.
“If Medicare is paying, the risk is you could be billed for unnecessary treatments,” Oliver said last night.
That zinger came from the very first line of the HBO host’s 20-plus-minute segment. Given the topic at hand, things got a bit more somber from there.
“The truth is, Covid just exposed what we’ve basically known for years,” Oliver said. “That the way the elderly and disabled are treated in far too many of these facilities is with, at best, indifference, and at worst, abuse and neglect.
Sadly, a nursing home resident’s level of care could very much be dependent upon who is footing the bill.
“If Medicare is paying, the risk is you could be billed for unnecessary treatments,” Oliver said last night.
- 4/12/2021
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Stars: Yvonne Strahovski, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Ryan McDonald, Justin Bruening, Julian Bailey, Stephanie Costa | Written by Mike Scannell | Directed by Quinn Lasher
My last Frightfest 2018 review for Nerdly comes in the form of a home invasion/slasher style horror movie titled simply, He’s Out There. The set-up of which will feel very familiar to genre fans.
A family visit the cabin in the woods (to be fair it’s a pretty big house in the woods) that they go to every year. Only this year they are terrorized by a mystery psychopath. But don’t dismiss He’s Out There just because you feel like you’ve seen it all before because it has plenty to offer even hardened horror fans.
The reason this is scarier than alot of home invasion movies is because the children are a major target for most of the movie. The mum is...
My last Frightfest 2018 review for Nerdly comes in the form of a home invasion/slasher style horror movie titled simply, He’s Out There. The set-up of which will feel very familiar to genre fans.
A family visit the cabin in the woods (to be fair it’s a pretty big house in the woods) that they go to every year. Only this year they are terrorized by a mystery psychopath. But don’t dismiss He’s Out There just because you feel like you’ve seen it all before because it has plenty to offer even hardened horror fans.
The reason this is scarier than alot of home invasion movies is because the children are a major target for most of the movie. The mum is...
- 9/13/2018
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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