The health insurance executive, who was criticized on television by John Oliver, is suing a comedian-turned talk show host who allegedly misinterpreted his remarks about the level that Medicaid recipients at the level of care disabled are to receive after using the toilet.
“I think it’s fine if people have s**t for days on their hands,” Dr. Brian Morley said last year, referring to previous comments by the medical director of Amerihealth Caritas, referring to the need and frequency of home nursing visits and the cost of such services.
“[F]**kThat doctor with a rusty canoe,” Oliver said in the air. “I hope he gets Tetanus the ball.”
This is according to a Federal delinquent loss lawsuit filed Fridaywhich subsequently damaged Morley’s “reputation and personal happiness.” Morley “didn’t make the wipes poor by leaving people sitting in their own shit for days,” the lawsuit says in fact “contrary testimony.”
According to Molly’s lawsuit, he did not say “it’s okay,” or that it’s medically appropriate for someone wearing diapers, or else he’s had them for days.” Anyone Sitting or lying in several days at a time, or in other feces. ”
Instead, the suits insisted, attempting to explain that Morley “may not wipe out completely,” but “they are mobile and they don’t put them there.”
“it was [Oliver] Those who deliberately and misrepresented Dr. Morley testified that it was “alright” to leave someone who failed, put on a diaper or otherwise sitting in their bowels “for days,” but he misrepresented it.
Morley’s lawyer declined to comment on Monday, saying Independence That Morley left Amerihealth Caritas “a few years ago” years ago.
Oliver and his production company’s attorneys, who have been appointed defendants in the case, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In an April 2024 episode Last week’s tonight Title “Medicaid,” Oliver told viewers “There’s been an increase in services or care that members have been illegally denied, and some of the cost savings are absolutely furious.”
He then showed video footage of him tied up in a wheelchair. A patient with cerebral palsy in Iowa was named Louis Feifenda Jr.went for six weeks without medication or daily nursing visits – during which the 25-year-old stopped paying for critical services after Amerihealth Caritas, a so-called managed care organization that advises the state’s Medicaid program.
“He hadn’t changed so that he would normally change two or three times a day,” Feifenda’s mother said in a snippet.
Oliver then ran an audio clip of Dr. Brian Morley, medical director of Amerihealth Caritas, about “similar patients” and 32-year-old policyholder Nathan McDonald at the 2017 administrative hearing. Amerihealth Caritas cut McDonald’s home visits by nurses who helped bathe and dress up twice a day, up to five times a week. Des Moines Sign up It was reported at the time.
“People don’t clean themselves completely every day, we don’t make a fuss [them] Too much,” Morley testified. register Audio of the testimony of Morley, played by Oliver. “People are allowed to get dirty… You know, I will allow him to get a little dirty for a few days.”
“I couldn’t wipe it completely,” MacDonald said. registerMolly’s lawsuit aims for the concept of “similar” to Faithenda, claiming that it is not limited to wheelchairs, not wearing diapers, move independently, change clothes, change your own clothes, bathe yourself, bathe yourself, generally sneak in, or bathe in water.
Morley’s lawsuit alleges that he refers to “the average individual who is independently and mobility but may not be completely wiped out – not the person wearing a diaper or otherwise lying in his own bowel movements.”
This “hypothesis” follows Morley’s suit. “If the feces are removed for a few hours, or even a day, or even the next day with someone who is not confined to bed on mobile, then you just need to wash the feces.”
According to the lawsuit, Morley believed Feifenda needed multiple home visits per day, but did not believe McDonald needed everything he wanted.
According to his lawsuit, he said, “There’s a good chance there’s someone running, you know, you know, you know, you know, they have intestinal movements that have poop on their skin for some reason, but they’re mostly mobile, they don’t have it, and they don’t have it.
In that case, “a person who is unsensual or immobilized (i.e. wearing a diaper) will cause skin decomposition if the feces are not removed from the skin quickly.”
But the suit continues, producer Last week’s tonight “He made it clear that Dr. Morley had never testified at all that he was ‘alright’ or medically appropriate, or that he was ‘alright’ or medically appropriate to a person who was ‘alright’ or medically appropriate to someone who was steadfast to have them for days, otherwise he knew, contradicted, and otherwise he would not reveal. ”
McDonald and Feifenda later won their appeal, and their full nursing services were restored.
Morley calls for withdrawal from all platforms, removal of episodes, compensatory, special damages, and punitive damages as determined by the ju-decision.
