‘This Is Inhumane’: Sick and Elderly Black Man Discharged from Hospital Found on Sidewalk Because Medicare Stopped Paying for Care
An unidentified elderly Black man was found on a sidewalk in Conyers, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, with medical tubes still attached after being discharged from a hospital nearby because Medicare would not continue coverage for his treatment. The 68-year-old man was discovered collapsed near the Piedmont Rockdale Hospital on Thursday, Oct. 14. According to…