In the past two months, I have spent many hours accompanying a loved one to hospital emergency rooms -- all of them privately operated. The rap on what is sometimes called socialized medicine is that if the government ran the system, the wait would be interminable. Well, I am here to tell you that even when the government does not run the system, the wait can be interminable.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Yeah, a lot of us could have told him this:
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Alas, I have known people who were quite sick who chose to go home where they could at least lie down rather than sit in a waiting room chair waiting for medical care.
ReplyDeleteYet, there are so many who claim our medical system is not broken.
Carolyn L.