On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:25:54 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:52 -0800, jps wrote:

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:26:24 -0500, wrote:


He could have had the best insurance in the world and died if the
ambulance took him to that ER. What's your point?
I suppose you could make the case that this is what happens in a
government hospital but I bet that is not where you were going with
this.

What do you mean "inundated by everyday business?"
You mean by people without health insurance coming in for
non-emergency treatment?
That kind of crap doesn't really happen, does it?

I assume you're being facetious.

I wasn't making a point about insurance. Just about ERs who can't pay
attention because they're too busy. If they weren't so inundated by
everyday business, perhaps they would have noticed this guy taking a
powder in their waiting room.

Anyone who interviews a patient coming in with pains in his arm knows
that it's within reason he's having a cardiac episode.

Why not at this ER. Stupid or just too busy to notice?

Maybe this guy had "the best insurance in the world" and died
because ER attention was being given to the uninsured.
You can google "stress emergency room" to get a clue.
All I know is a number of pols say "Everybody can get care in America.
Just go to the emergency room."

Exactly my point.

I assumed the audience would connect the dots as you did. Thanks for
filling in the detail.

Gfretwell, Plume and I have traveled this road previously, dragging an
old turd from N. California behind us.