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Michael Moore would be proud...
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? -- John H- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - So are you saying that the Veteran's Administration's health system is crappy? |
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jps 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! If it were up to them, all air would look like Los Angeles', the water would resemble Love Canal in the 70s and we'd be ingesting carcinogens with every bite. I guess you are taking your show on the road to modern China next week. There may still be time to clean up Bejing's environment prior to the Summer Olympics. Business and industry should always be left to profit unfettered for those who believe in the sanctity of life -- that is right up until you're born. Then you'd bloody well better be prepared to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and pay for your portion of our national debt, currently estimated at $40K/person at the time of birth. Keep Congress out of session for two years and that will clear up. That's debt to pay not for health care, it's to pay for bombs, an under-valued military and tax breaks for business and the rich. Get rid of all entitlements that are not earned by service or sacrifice above and beyond bearing a child and chasing away the father. Hell, the conservatives don't even want to give health care to the thousands of kids who come home maimed from our oil wars. We want them to get health care. However, the illegal immigrants who need health care should be given a shot of penicillin and put on a plane back to their country of most recent citizenship. Conservatives - there's little about them that is. Conservation of capital. Conservation of what I earn. Conservation of my property. Conservation of the the country. |
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Michael Moore would be proud...
BAR wrote:
Get rid of all entitlements that are not earned by service or sacrifice above and beyond bearing a child and chasing away the father. We want them to get health care. However, the illegal immigrants who need health care should be given a shot of penicillin and put on a plane back to their country of most recent citizenship. Conservation of capital. Conservation of what I earn. Conservation of my property. Conservation of the the country. There's nothing quite like these Christian conservatives. :} |
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Michael Moore would be proud...
On Jan 3, 8:43*pm, HK wrote:
BAR wrote: Get rid of all entitlements that are not earned by service or sacrifice above and beyond bearing a child and chasing away the father. We want them to get health care. However, the illegal immigrants who need health care should be given a shot of penicillin and put on a plane back to their country of most recent citizenship. Conservation of capital. Conservation of what I earn. Conservation of my property. Conservation of the the country. There's nothing quite like these Christian conservatives. *:} We are a well raised and proud bunch aren't we.. |
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