BAR wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 3, 10:23 am, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:11:48 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Jan 2, 7:01 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
Woman waits in California hospital for a bed to open up here
Wednesday, January 02 - 11:30:00 AM
Lyle Fisher
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - A Surrey woman's holiday in California has
turned into a healthcare nightmare. The 68-year old needed emergency
surgery after her appendix burst, but now she can't come home due
to a
lack of hospital beds.
Arlene Meeks has been in a California hospital since December 17th.
Her family has been trying to get her transferred back to the Lower
Mainland for 2 weeks now but they haven't had any luck.
Stephen Harris with the South Fraser Health Region says the issue
is a
shortage of ventilated intensive care unit beds, which are highly
specialized. He says over the holidays, it's not surprising to see
those beds filled up.
Harris says as soon as a bed becomes available, Meeks will be
transferred to a local hospital. Arlene's daughter Kim says her
mom is
'frustrated as hell', and she just wants to come home.
NDP Health Critic Adrian Dix says the issue is one that's
continued to
plague the Lower Mainland and he's blaming Liberal government
cuts to
acute care beds. "The number of acute care beds in British Columbia
was reduced by 1,300 in the first mandate of the government, and
some
of the new facilities being opened won't be adding to that number."
Dix says the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health authorities issued
reports last fall indicating they are 650 acute care beds short
right
now.
The trouble is, you right wingers only look for the bad things about
any system you don't like. Why don't you find the good things, and
post them as well, if you want to come off as balanced. Same with
global warming!
The only good thing about the overtaxed, crappy health system is
that it's
'free'. So what?
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So are you saying that the Veteran's Administration's health system is
crappy?
In many areas and aspects the VA health care does suck. I am for
universal health care, because the system we have today is Universal
health care, but you just have to get very sick and go to the ER
before it is available. We all are already paying for universal
healthcare, at substantially higher prices than we need to. It is
cheaper to take care of a minor problem with a RN or in a clinic,
than wait till it is a major problem.
Plus, if we had Universal Health Care, most of the people who are
uninsured today, who we are already paying for their care, would pay
some or all of their healthcare insurance.
You are a "progressive" in disguise and I say that with all due negative
connotation.
LOL, I am really only interested in what will cost me less. What we are
doing today is costing all of us more. Why should our insurance cost
us more, because a large percent of the population either can't or won't
buy insurance? The uninsured will always get free healthcare, but only
when it is the most expensive.
I pay for health insurance for my wife and 3 kids, why should I have to
pay it for those who can afford it, but prefer not to because they don't
think they need it. If you don't think you are already paying for it
today, you are incorrect.