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AnimusRex -> RE: Rush taken to hospital (1/2/2010 9:42:16 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Well, we don't have waiting lists here, especially for heart attack victims, so you can calm down.
CORRECT- we don't have waiting lists. Instead, there are two categories- those who can pay get treated, while those who cannot are dumped into the street.
No, I don't mean dumped into the street in a metaphorical sense, or figuratively speaking; I mean, literally driven somewhere, and dumped into the street, as documented in this LA Times Article
Money quote:
Doctors at College Hospital diagnosed Steven Davis as suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. Doctors at the Costa Mesa mental institution prescribed him numerous drugs to deal with paranoid delusions that had led to an earlier suicide attempt.
But that didn't stop the hospital from hauling Davis into a van and driving him more than 40 miles north to downtown L.A., where they dropped him off outside the Union Rescue Mission. When mission officials complained to the hospital, the van returned and drove Davis a few miles south to another shelter. Davis wandered away without ever entering.
Oh, a one time occurance, a scandal...? um, no. This was/ is a regular practice, as this article points out.
So yeah, in fucking socialist Canada, that man might have been put on a waiting list to receive treatment. Gawd, teh inhumanity!
Here, in the US of A, we simply drive him somewhere and push him out the door like a stray dog.
Just like Jeebus would have done!
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