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[bluelake]

I heard about that a few days ago. It was shocking and reprehensible. I heard the 911 calls that were made from inside the hospital. The dispatcher said, "This number is for emergency calls only!" The woman said, "This IS an emergency!" The dispatcher said, "No, it isn't!" and so on, back and forth. Ex-squeeze me??? A woman dying on the floor isn't an emergency? I hope that guy is put through the ringer, along with the hospital. There is no excuse.

[Join Me]

The state of the health care system is one of the reasons I don't return to the USA. If you are poor or without insurance, you are allowed to be treated like an animal as this video shows. If you are American and you haven't watched Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" yet you really should. I will never understand why my country can't provide free insurance to even the poorest of people when other countries manage to provide it to the entire population. People will claim your taxes would go up but if you are in the US you and your employer are already paying through the nose for your insurance.

[Adventurer]

Captain Blue Lake, I don't know the circumstances of the hospital. I just know she was black and a mental patient and the hospitals receive little help from the government, so the American people should take more responsibility for their own, but too many people say they don't want to have to work two jobs to pay for it. That woman may not have been able to be saved, but she shouldn't have simply died like that. It seems callous. Here is my guess about this all: She is a black woman in New York in a poor area with a lot of black people, there is substandard care, and it was not about race, as the people who didn't help here in several cases were also black just like when that old man who was run over and people watched him lying there, it was in the ghetto, too, but things are not much better for poor white folks in America. You have to pray you are not sick. Dallas has a decent a public hospital, but that is rare in the US. Many public ones were shut down.

[bluelake]