Donald Trump may have recently bungled his stance on pro-life choice, but a North Texas Hospice CEO basically denied the “right to life” of dying patients by ordering nurses to administer deadly overdoses to dying patients in order to create more bed space. Brad Harris, CEO of Novus Health Care Services in Frisco, Texas, has not been charged yet in the case, and it hasn’t yet been determined if any patients were actually harmed. According to Texas Right To Life, an FBI investigation uncovered the disturbing orders imposed by Harris at the North Texas hospice amid other health care fraud that was perpetrated by Harris as well.
FBI uncovers horrific abuses within a North Texas hospicehttps://t.co/BcJZbETXnG pic.twitter.com/h4e7uKuVbA
— Texas Right to Life (@TXRightToLife) April 1, 2016
Texas Right To Life, a pro-life organization, said that an FBI affidavit indicated that Harris sent text messages to employees that basically told them to get rid of certain patients. Harris would then tell them to administer overdoses of drugs such as morphine to accelerate their death. The New York Daily News reported that the CEO directed nurses to “execute helpless patients who had overstayed their welcome by upping their medications to four times the maximum allowed, according to an FBI warrant affidavit obtained by NBC.” According to the affidavit, Harris is not a doctor, but an accountant who ordered one nurse to lethally overdose three patients and told another nurse to quadruple the maximum medication for another patient. One of the text messages sent to a nurse was cryptic, but quite clear.
“You need to make this patient go bye-bye.”
Wow, ANOTHER scumbag CEO. More reasons for UHC. https://t.co/gsrAywqPFB
— Brett Middaugh (@bmiddaugh) April 2, 2016
The NYDN article said that at least one of the nurses refused the morbid instructions, but it was unknown if any of the patients were actually harmed. Texas Right To Life spokesman John Seago told One News Now that he was horrified by what happened at this North Texas hospice and noted that “the pro-life ethic certainly applies to those nearing the end of life.”
“The same principles that lead us to see elective abortion as an injustice lead us to see these abuses as horrific acts against these innocent patients.”
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— RaidersDefendingLife (@ProLifeRaiders) March 31, 2016
Seago said that Texas isn’t considering legalizing assisted suicide, but the “morally challenged thinking that goes into those measures are at work in the Lone Star State.”
“There are these types of value judgments being made in the healthcare system in Texas where the anti-life ethics are actually what’s considered to make these decisions rather than the medical need of patients.”
ONN also quoted Abe Hamilton of the American Family Association, who agrees with Seago by saying that the Texas case is the “flip side of the abortion coin.”
“If a baby is only a baby if it can function on its own without assistance, then a person is only a person if they can function on their own without assistance.”
Hamilton says that “when society leaves the pro-life ethic – this is where you end up.”
“[People say] ‘I can destroy innocent people in Lahore, Pakistan, by suicide bombers. I can kill children in the womb. I can eliminate an entire ethnic group of Jewish individuals. I can hasten the death of elderly individuals’ – it’s the dehumanization of them all.”
Harris founded the North Texas hospice, Novus Health Services, in July 2012. The FBI first started investigating NHS in October 2014 due to allegations that the hospice recruited patients who “did not qualify for services” and billed the government for unnecessary services according to NYDN. It was during this investigation of the company that the FBI found that Harris was ordering overdoses of some patients. A warrant to access Novus’ emails and electronic documents was carried out in February but the paperwork was just obtained by NBC on Tuesday of this week.
NYDN also said an FBI wrote in the warrant that Harris had spoken publicly about his “profit-driven murderous scheme” to other health care executives at a lunch meeting. The hospice CEO said he wished he could “find patients who would die within 24 hours” and “If this f***** would just die.” In the above video, Fox News reporter Trace Gallagher also mentions what was said in the FBI affidavit and that when patients have to stay too long in hospice, the provider may have to pay back government payments. So obviously, this was Harris’ motive or incentive to decrease patient’s stays, or in this case, their lives.
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North Texas Hospice CEO Ordered Nurses To ‘Euthanize’ Dying Patients To Increase Profits [Video] is an article from: The Inquisitr News