MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who appeared to be intoxicated allegedly tried to get inside the wrong house in Midtown last month, then shot at two women inside when they wouldn’t let him in, p…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who appeared to be intoxicated allegedly tried to get inside the wrong house in Midtown last month, then shot at two women inside when they wouldn’t let him in, police said.
Worth commenting on their horrible treatment at the hospital. Sat there with an untreated GSW for fourteen hours and then kicked out? Sometimes I feel like there is no healthcare at all in this country. I get that a bullet graze might not be the most urgent trauma that walks in the door, but fourteen hours is a bit much even if all she needed was a bandaid.
Lines up with the time I went to the hospital with sweat pouring off me and the worst headache pain in a lifetime of migraines and cluster headaches, and I walked out after 10 hours because if it was a stroke I was going to die right there in the waiting room and if not, sitting in the waiting room was just heaping misery on top of misery.
What frustrates me the most is poll after poll supports healthcare reform until there's a chance of accomplish it. Then the republican noise machine starts up and the polls shift in the other direction. If people actually and authentically wanted healthcare reform and demanded it then it would happen.
Don't you remember that part in the Bible where there was the person with leprosy who met Jesus but Jesus was out of network and working for a for profit healthcare corporation so it was going to cost $3,000 out of pocket for the initial consult and that wasn't even going to go towards their $5,000 deductible? I think it was in the Gospel of John.
There are always horror stories about poor care in countries with socialized medicine and it sounds really scary, but the numbers don't lie. Countries with socialized healthcare have better overall outcomes for half the cost. Medical care for profit is bad business and bad healthcare.
I say this as a guy who grew up huffing Reagan's farts. It's all lies.