How horrible.

[velvetpage]

I mourn this woman, younger than I am. I see in this one case the perfect reason why socialized health care is essential to a reasonable and civilized society. This could not have happened in a place where medicine wasn't governed directly by money.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa051214_lj_african.bb0e76d.html

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[tormentedartist.livejournal.com]

I have to agree.

[winters-edge.livejournal.com]

I don't know a lot about Canada's system, but I do know a lot about how the system works for the uninsured in Texas. The article indicates that prior to getting the notice stating that the patient's respirator would be disconnected in 10 days, she'd been on it for 25 days. Her body was "ravaged by cancer." That means they gave her 35 days of free respirator care while the family attempted to bring her mother over from Africa. That's very expensive, and in terms of free health care- especially in Texas- incredibly generous.

If she'd been in Canada, would they have paid for her to remain on a respirator indefinitely?

[kianir.livejournal.com]

Our preventive care is a hundred times worse than our emergency care.

[paka.livejournal.com]

It's ludicrous and sad to you.

To us, still reeling from a governor willing to break the law and a religious right railing to try and save a woman without enough brains to scrape together a fragment of this lady's last thoughts, it's downright horrific.

And when you consider that the obviously brain dead lady was Caucasian, and the obviously cognizant lady wasn't, especially after other events of the past year, it's nearly impossible not to scream about the Republicans' unspoken racism.