[kj] [OT] Don't stay overnight in a US hospital!

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Yeah, the article I linked to goes into MLK-Harbor/Drew's problems in 
depth. It's a symptom of a greater problem, and the MLK experience is 
admittedly unusually bad EVEN BY U.S. standards, which are lower than 
the rest of the industrialized world's. Keep in mind I'm in Texas -- not 
one of the many Brits on this list engaging in idle US-bashing. I know 
what's rotten when I see it, regardless of country -- and the US health 
care system is one of the things that's rotten. I don't think there can 
ever be a perfect health care system, and I don't think anyone's 
suggested there can be, or that neglect in Canada and the UK don't ever 
happen, as you seem to imply. But can there be a better one than what we 
have here, now? Yes.

According to a poll at the non-partisan TheHill.com even 51% of 
Republican voters want universal health care in the US: 
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/poll-shows-many-republicans-favor-universal-healthcare-gays-in-military-2007-06-28.html

It's not some pissing contest with other countries across the world.

-Oliver



T.B. wrote:

> "B. Oliver Sheppard" wrote:

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>> http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_135204209.html

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> Right. No one's died in an ER due to neglect in the UK.  Or Canada or 

> anywhere else in the world.