Hurray for the American medical system!

What. The. Hell.

too bad health reform would do nothing to places like that.........

dont forget how her husband was as president.........it would be exactly the same, the lower class would double and the gap between higher-mid class-lower class would be huge, and probably will anyways since all our candidates suck and aren't worrying about the things they should....

yep.......thats why we are gonna try to make a law making it illegal to witness a crime and not do anything about it(something like that)


http://jalopnik.com/395233/elderly-man-hit...y-seems-to-care

watch that ^^

While Bill was in office Hilary was basically president. She gave him all the insight and all that other crap. So I wouldn't forsee any medical reforms.

You can also see in the video that other patients just sat there and did not try to help her. Oh and what happened to the other 50 minutes of the video. Thats what is wrong with t.v. You don't see what happened in the rest of the time.

Lordy, if you live in America, you would understand that the only way to fix the health care system is to get the bloody government out of it, get rid of all those regulations (HMOS, etc), and stupid taxes.

A universal healthcare system wouldn't really do much more then increase the cost of medical equipment.

There is a law in the US called Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), I am lazy atm, so I just copy and paste this off wikipedia:

So by all means, the lady was suppose to have been put through screenings, and should have been fixed up by the doctors.

I personally have worked part time in a hospital (as an IT intern), everytime, from when I get to work and get off work, the waiting rooms are almost always filled with people.

There aren't as much state taxes here in California or medical facilities, but the state regulations are pretty much the same as New York. The federal government plays the biggest role right now, because the value the US dollar is going down and with it the cost of living goes up.

Hillary would have just continued in the same direction but just on a different path.

I live in America and I didn't know that. Makes perfect sense, it's just not something I'd looked into. I wish they'd leave education alone as well, THAT would have me out dancing in the streets. We just don't have a government that understands the whole concept of "hands off."

As far as ERs in general are concerned, they've almost killed me twice, so I don't like them much.

Last time I had an ambulance phoned for me (Alcohol related obviously). It was outside in about 5-10minutes. At midnight.

ER's said my wrist and hand was fine and i needed a shrink when i broke them, and the x rays had a clear line through the wrist, the hand.....well i couldnt tell w/ the hand but when we went to another department, they were like.......why aren't u in a cast, your hands broke.

ER's r shit.

Back in the 50s-70s, American health care was almost 100% privatised, I mean people could afford health care.

Now I don't know enough about the Australian's government or that of other countries, but in the US, the government at all levels are about as corrupt as the corporations and lobbyists.

I don't trust for-profit hospitals either, but government won't do any better by creating more regulations and taxes, or by taking over the role of caring for the populace.

The CIA and other governments departments has previously done tons of inhumane experiments to the unsuspecting population.

http://www.umedia.com/MediaMike/GovAtrocities.html

I rather take my life with people who just want money, then put it into the hands of people who want to use me as human guinea pig.