The Nation - News from Feb. 25, 1986

Responding to complaints that elderly Medicare patients are being dumped from hospital beds before they are well because their pre-set Medicare payments have run out, the government released a “bill of rights” spelling out how to fight premature hospital discharges. The statement, which gives a telephone number for making emergency appeals, will be given to each of the 9 million Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized each year, the Health and Human Services Department said.