My grandmother had a heart attack the other day and had to be brought to the emergency room. My mother went to visit her today and told me that the hallways were full of ER patients. While I wasn’t there to see for myself, you would think this kind of thing would only happen after a natural disaster or some other kind of mass casualty event.
Why were the hallways stuffed with patients without their own rooms? It turns out that, during the past few years, at least 5 hospitals within the broader area had shut down, with no new ones were built to replace them. The profit motive has driven the healthcare administrator ghouls to give up even the pretense that they’re able to offer timely care.
Death to Amerikkka!
It’s similar in Germany, where we ostensibly have universal healthcare but you definitely get treated better if you can pay more (actually that’s an EU requirement).
It’s not uncommon for ER patients to be in the halls and the main hospital in the area I live in is well known for how bad it is.
And everything related to healthcare is privatized, even the general insurance which everyone has to pay for.
Yeah agreed, I waited nine hours in the ER for like an acute immediate surgery. And then my insurance tried to accuse me of THREATENING like first responders and forcing the doctors to do surgery on me. They were desperate to not have to pay out lol