It is surprising to hear long term care push the fiction that Medicare and Medicaid don’t pay enough with profits like this.  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/extendicare-announces-2014-second-quarter-results-2014-08-06-1717337?reflink=MW_news_stmp

In our practice, we frequently see stand-alone facilities create the façade of corporate impoverishment, when in reality taxpayer money goes straight to do-nothing shell corporations and owners.  One of the greatest problems in healthcare today is the pressure on for-profit facilities to satisfy shareholders/owners, rather than focus on patient care.